{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Is Anything Real?","title":"Healthcare Isn’t Weather: How Employers Can Fix a Broken System | Ep. 71 w/ David Silverstein","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1562,"description":"Healthcare is broken. But treating it like an unavoidable force of nature is not leadership.\nIn this episode of Is Anything Real?, Adam W. Barney is joined by David Silverstein, founder and CEO of Amaze Health and author of The Lean Health Plan: How American Businesses Can Fix Our Broken Healthcare System, for a systems-level conversation about healthcare, employer responsibility, and the leadership cost of learned helplessness.\nDavid’s argument is direct:\nAmerican businesses are not just victims of healthcare complexity.They are active sponsors of the system their employees live inside.\nAnd if employers are funding the system, selecting the vendors, sharing the cost with employees, and carrying fiduciary responsibility, then they cannot keep pretending healthcare is “just how it works.”\nThey have to understand it.They have to question it.They have to manage it like the major business system it is.\nIn this episode, we unpack:Why employers became central to the American healthcare systemWhy many leaders treat healthcare like weather, taxes, or annual bad newsHow complexity creates learned helplessness inside the C-suiteWhy self-insured employers have more responsibility than they may realizeThe hidden administrative machine behind claims, networks, TPAs, PBMs, and pricing opacityWhy businesses tolerate healthcare complexity they would never accept in payroll, procurement, travel, or supply chainWhat “active sponsorship” means for leaders managing health benefitsWhy the government is unlikely to rescue employers from this systemHow AI and blockbuster drugs may accelerate healthcare cost pressureThe Broken System Audit leaders can use on healthcare or any recurring operational migraineOne of the clearest takeaways:\nComplexity does not excuse inaction.\n\nLeadership is not the search for perfect answers.It is the discipline of taking responsibility inside imperfect, complex systems.\nGuest: David Silverstein - Founder + CEO, Amaze HealthAuthor of The Lean Health Plan:...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Qn6TLpgWpRcPjyPIUKbjo4kO0hmw0xfZwNq28E-eqNw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jYTRk/YjIxZjYwNmEyOGI5/Nzc1ODRjNWM5NjQ3/MjE2NC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}