Dave Chase
Community-owned health plan builder serving 5M+ Americans. Former Microsoft healthcare founder, WebMD acquisition founder, bestselling author, TED speaker. Transform hc from wealth-extractor to wealth-builder. https://www.linkedin.com/in/chasedave
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When Neighbors Built the Health System (opens the original)
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In 1899, sixty members of the Catholic Workers’ Association in Switzerland made a promise to one another. If illness or an accident struck any of them, the rest would help carry the cost. Switzerland had no national health insurance at the time, so these workers pooled what little they had and trusted one another to keep paying in.That promise became CSS. More than 125 years later, it insures about 1.7 million people, almost 20 percent of the population, and it is still owned by the association
The Upstream Tax: Why Healthcare Is Impact Investing’s Biggest Blind Spot (opens the original)
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My team and I have spent the past decade inside health plans for hundreds of employers, a vantage point no consulting firm or investment manager gets. I can tell almost immediately which organizations are actually delivering better health for less money and which ones are just good at the marketing.Russell DuBose found out the hard way that his own plan belonged in the second category. As VP of HR at Phifer, a family-owned Alabama manufacturer with about 1,200 employees, he’d already run Phifer’
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