{"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.\nThey are active sponsors of the system their employees live inside.\n\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.”\n\nThey have to understand it.\nThey have to question it.\nThey have to manage it like the major business system it is.\n\nIn this episode, we unpack:\nWhy employers became central to the American healthcare system\nWhy many leaders treat healthcare like weather, taxes, or annual bad news\nHow complexity creates learned helplessness inside the C-suite\nWhy self-insured employers have more responsibility than they may realize\nThe hidden administrative machine behind claims, networks, TPAs, PBMs, and pricing opacity\nWhy businesses tolerate healthcare complexity they would never accept in payroll, procurement, travel, or supply chain\nWhat “active sponsorship” means for leaders managing health benefits\nWhy the government is unlikely to rescue employers from this system\nHow AI and blockbuster drugs may accelerate healthcare cost pressure\nThe Broken System Audit leaders can use on healthcare or any recurring operational migraine\nOne of the clearest takeaways:\nComplexity does not excuse inaction.\n\nLeadership is not the search for perfect answers.\nIt is the discipline of taking responsibility inside imperfect, complex systems.\nGuest: David Silverstein - Founder + CEO, Amaze Health\nAuthor of The...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/ygROTLd9i0_eLtZIaqFi8L4-QpOmBc_9g4DQT9Zg2Ho/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lNGJh/NzkxYTJiZTljMTZm/M2YzZWZmZTA4YjFk/ZmJhNS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}