A Solution for High Healthcare Costs with Matthew Holt and Steven Wardell

Americans spend more than anyone on their healthcare. There are only 4 ways to get costs down but breakthroughs are tough.

In the show we’ll dive into:

- The only way to cut heatlhcare costs are cut prices, cut use, reduce unnecessary services, and replace higher cost services with lower priced ones

- We look at each way to cut costs with policy innovation promising to reduce unnecessary services and tech innovation promising to introduce lower cost services

- But each move in healthcare is opposed by entrenched interests; who is budging first?

And we'll answer your questions

Matthew Holt is the President of SMACK Consulting and a healthcare curmudgeon. He is best known as the founder of Health 2.0 and The Health Care Blog (https://thehealthcareblog.com/).

Steven Wardell is the Managing Partner of Wardell Advisors, a consulting firm focused on growth, fundraising, and strategic alternatives for digital health companies. He is the host of DigitalHealth InvestorTalk and the author of The Future of Digital Health. Follow for digital health insights at X.com/StevenWardell.

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