CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.
CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered. is a weekly podcast that provides an incisive, no B.S. view of the US healthcare industry. Join co-hosts John Driscoll (President U.S. Healthcare and EVP, Walgreens Boots Alliance) and David Williams (President, Health Business Group) as they debate the latest in US healthcare news, business and policy. Visit us at www.CareTalkPodcast.com
Episodes
391 episodes
The Difference Between Surviving and Living With Cancer
There are very few cures for cancers that have already spread. So what does a good outcome actually look like?In this clip from our episode “How Targeted Radiotherapy Is Changing Cancer Care”, host David E. Williams and John Babich, Fou...
How Targeted Radiotherapy Is Changing Cancer Care w/ John Babich, President, CSO, Ratio Therapeutics
For decades, cancer treatment has rested on three pillars: surgery, chemotherapy, and external beam radiation. A fourth is now taking shape, and it is drawing billions in investment from some of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world...
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Preparing for the Pandemic We Haven't Seen Yet w/ Dr. Dan Barouch & Kris Brown, Vector Sciences
The COVID-19 pandemic proved vaccine platforms can move at unprecedented speed. It also revealed how dangerously narrow the world's response really was, built almost entirely on a single technology.Dr. Dan Barouch and Kris Brown, Co-Fou...
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Mark Cuban on Why Patients Don’t Trust Their Medical Bills
People trust their doctor. They do not trust the bill they get afterward.In this clip from our episode “Why Healthcare Prices Are Like Fight Club”, host John Driscoll and Mark Cuban, Co-Founder of Cost Plus Drugs, break down why pricing...
Why Healthcare Prices Are Like Fight Club w/ Mark Cuban, Co-Founder, Cost Plus Drugs
Nobody at the pharmacy counter knows the real price of their medication, and almost nobody in the system actually wants them to.Mark Cuban, Co-Founder of Cost Plus Drugs, joins host John Driscoll on CareTalk to discuss why pharmacy bene...
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GLP-1s May Reduce Cancer Progression
GLP-1 drugs were designed for weight loss. Now they may be showing up in cancer research in a way nobody expected.In this clip from our episode “The Business & Science Behind the GLP-1 Boom”, hosts David E. Williams and John Driscol...
The Business & Science Behind the GLP-1 Boom
GLP-1 drugs have produced some of the most consistent weight loss results medicine has ever seen. The business of actually getting them to patients is a different story entirely.David E. Williams, President of Health Business Group, and...
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Why We Can Never Have Enough Doctors
Six million healthcare workers are missing today. By 2030, that number reaches 10 million. No amount of training will ever close that gap.In this clip from our episode “Is AI the New Dr. Google?”, host David E. Williams and Bertalan Mes...
The Future of Medicine Is Already Here w/ Bertalan Mesko, The Medical Futurist Institute
The World Health Organization projects a global shortage of 10 million healthcare workers by 2030. No training pipeline can close that gap. The only path forward runs through technology.Dr. Bertalan Meskó, Founder & Director of the ...
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Why Insulin Never Reaches the Liver
The liver is the only organ in the body that can release stored glucose to prevent low blood sugar. So why has injected insulin never been able to reach it?In this clip from our episode “Finding a Solution for GLP-1 Side Effects”, host ...
Targeting the Root Causes of Metabolic Disease w/ Bob Geho, Founder & CEO, Diasome
Every year, one in five adults with Type 1 diabetes experiences a dangerous drop in blood sugar that renders them unable to treat themselves. These severe hypoglycemic events are still happening, even though many patients now use continuous glu...
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Can Healthcare Claims Be Adjudicated in Real-Time? w/ Don Peterson, Founder & CEO, PIM Health
American hospitals now spend nearly $2 on administrative overhead for every dollar that touches direct patient care. Insurers earn billions in float by sitting on claims for weeks, providers borrow money just to stay liquid, and patients open b...
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How Digital Interventions Transform Mental Health
What if the tools patients use between therapy sessions mattered more than the sessions themselves?In this clip from our episode “Fixing the Access Crisis In Mental Health”, host John Driscoll and Mark Frank, Co-Founder and CEO of Sonde...
Fixing the Access Crisis In Mental Health w/ Mark Frank, Co-Founder & CEO, SonderMind
More than 160 million Americans live in federally designated mental health provider shortage areas. Even those with insurance often spend months searching for a therapist who takes their plan and has availability.Mark Frank, Co-Founder ...
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How Health Insurance Costs Hurt Small Businesses
For most small businesses, health insurance is their second or third largest expense. And they usually find out what it's going to cost them two to three weeks before renewal.In this clip from our episode “Why Health Insurance Needs Tra...
Why Health Insurance Needs Transparency w/ Ty Wang, Co-Founder & CEO, Angle Health
Nearly half of all Americans get their health insurance through a small business. Most of those businesses have no idea why their premiums go up every year and no real power to do anything about it.Ty Wang, Co-Founder and CEO of Angle H...
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Why Hospitals Keep Defaulting to Medicare Logic
For years, hospitals managing value-based contracts have been doing so with one hand tied behind their back, defaulting to Medicare logic because that was the only playbook precise enough to follow.In this clip from our episode “Why Val...
Why Value-Based Care Is Finally Hitting Its Tipping Point w/ David Snow, CEO, Cedar Gate Technologies, an IQVIA business
For decades, value-based care has been healthcare's promised future. Most health systems have stayed in upside-only arrangements, and the data infrastructure needed to manage real risk has never quite caught up to the ambition.That may ...
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Nicole Saphier vs. Casey Means For Surgeon General
Is it easier to change the medical establishment from the inside or the outside?In this clip from our episode "MAHA Split Over New Surgeon General," hosts David E. Williams and John Driscoll break down what separated Casey Means from Ni...
MAHA Split Over New Surgeon General
The collapse of Dr. Casey Means’ nomination this week has sent shockwaves through the “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) movement. While the tech world debates AI, healthcare is debating the “Saphier Pivot,” the Trump administration’s sudden s...
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Why Healthcare Costs Keep Climbing
Is American healthcare collapsing?In this clip from our episode "How AI Could Save a Collapsing Healthcare System," host David E. Williams and Dr. Robert Pearl, Author of ChatGPT MD, break down why the current system is financially unsu...
How AI Could Save a Collapsing Healthcare System w/ Dr. Robert Pearl, Author, "ChatGPT, MD"
American employers now spend over $25,000 a year to cover a single family, and chronic disease is driving the system toward collapse. Yet medicine is still built around a doctor's office visit every three to four months.Dr. Robert Pearl...
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Could This Be the First Parkinson's Disease Modifier?
Is the era of just managing Parkinson's symptoms finally coming to an end?In this clip from our episode “How AI Is Helping The Fight Against Parkinson’s”, host David E. Williams and guest Gene Mack, CEO of Gain Therapeutics, share why t...
How AI Is Helping The Fight Against Parkinson’s w/ Gene Mack, CEO, Gain Therapeutics
For decades, Parkinson's patients have been offered only symptom management. No drug has ever slowed the disease itself. A small clinical stage biotech may be about to change that.Gene Mack, CEO, Gain Therapeutics joins host David E. Wi...
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