# David Goldhill

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How a Government Mind Control Experiment Backfired

Today's guest is University of Texas historian John Lisle, author of the chilling and brilliantly researched Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKULTRA. Despite official attempts to destroy records of the CIA's LSD-fueled search for mind control in the 1950s and '60…

Should the U.S. Have a Public Health Insurance Plan?

Jacob Hacker and David Goldhill debate the resolution: "The government should offer to all Americans a health insurance plan that would compete with private insurance plans." Jacob Hacker is arguing for the affirmative. He's a professor of political science at Yale University and codirects the Lud…

Why Healthcare is Broken with Donovan Pyle

Healthcare premiums keep rising, but plan quality often stays the same (or gets worse). In this conversation, Shaun Enders sits down with Donovan Pyle—CEO of Health Compass and author of Fixing Healthcare—to unpack why the employer-sponsored healthcare market functions the way it does. Donovan exp…

Bonus: Hot dogs w/ a side of menopur: our conversation with the team behind Costco's IVF announcement

Surprise! Ahead of our Season 3 premiere next week (April 24, mark your calendars and hit follow), we’re dropping a very special bonus episode today. We’re talking about the Costco fertility news everyone’s been buzzing about and how this offering actually works for IVF patients. We first sat down …

Healthcare Fixed: No Insurance Needed, Same Doctors, 60% Less - David Goldhill

Charles goes one on one with David Goldhill, founder and CEO of Sesame, former president of television at Universal Studios, and author of Catastrophic Care, to tear apart why American healthcare costs so much and what it would actually take to fix it. They walk through why the United States cover…

Why Is Healthcare in America So Broken?

During World War II, Americans had more money than usual — wartime jobs paid well — but fewer goods to spend it on, since factories were making tanks, not toasters. Too much money chasing too few goods is a recipe for inflation, and the government saw it coming. So it froze prices, issued ration bo…

Why Is Healthcare in America So Broken?

During World War II, Americans had more money than usual — wartime jobs paid well — but fewer goods to spend it on, since factories were making tanks, not toasters. Too much money chasing too few goods is a recipe for inflation, and the government saw it coming. So it froze prices, issued ration bo…

Europe is Freeloading on American Healthcare

Americans pay vastly more for medicine than citizens of other wealthy countries, but are those countries getting a bargain at our expense? David Goldhill, author of Catastrophic Care and founder and CEO of the healthcare marketplace Sesame, joins the show to explain why he considers American health…