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Relocalizing Health with Dave ChaseAuthor: TopHealth Media
While Washington argues and Wall Street profits, a quiet transformation is reshaping healthcare: one community at a time.Relocalizing Health takes you inside this movement with Dave Chase, founder of Health Rosetta, as he talks with the people leading healthcare's ground-up transformation. Their approach? Keep care local, rebuild trust, and redirect healthcare wasted spending into something that actually serves people.You'll hear real-world stories from employers, clinicians, and civic leaders who are designing health plans and ecosystems that work, and strengthening their local economies in the process.Featured guests include:- Public sector leaders who've redesigned employee health benefits to free up millions for essential services.- Physicians who've left corporate systems to practice relationship-based care.- Manufacturing executives using healthcare as a competitive advantage - not a cost burden.- Civic leaders helping communities reclaim control of their healthcare destiny.If you care about your community's future and want to see what's actually working in healthcare transformation, this show offers a clear-eyed look at proven models and how to implement them. Language: en-us Genres: Business, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Non-Profit Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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How Wisconsin School Districts Built Better Health Plans and Curbed Rising Healthcare Costs
Episode 32
Friday, 23 October, 2026
Welcome to Relocalizing Health. In this episode, Dave Chase sits down with Brian Adesso, Director of Business Services for the Menasha Joint School District and President of the Employer Healthcare Cooperative of Wisconsin (EHCW), to explore how a group of Wisconsin employers, including school districts and private companies, joined forces to fight skyrocketing healthcare costs. Together, they created a cooperative model that now covers over 23,000 people and has cut out-of-pocket expenses for employees by nearly half, all in one of the highest-priced hospital markets in the nation.Dave Chase and Brian Adesso discuss why traditional health plans were devastating school budgets, how pooling resources and ownership led to direct provider negotiations, and the powerful impact of local control. They share lessons learned from building trust, overcoming skepticism, and expanding the cooperative’s reach, along with stories about improved benefits that are making a difference for teachers, staff, and other public employees. Whether you’re a district administrator, a city manager, or a private sector employer feeling the squeeze of rising premiums, this episode breaks down practical steps and inspiration for taking ownership of healthcare in your community.Timestamps:00:00 Healthcare cost challenges and solutions06:13 Concerns about AI in healthcare06:57 Coding intensity in healthcare10:15 Change in provider-employer relationships15:40 Challenges of switching insurance plans16:36 Healthcare coverage for pregnancies20:44 Discussing community-owned health plans23:33 Community and ownership in cooperatives28:09 Employer Healthcare Cooperative growth story29:15 School district healthcare solutionsLearn More:RosettaFest 2027 - https://rosettafest.org/Health Rosetta - http://healthrosetta.org/Nautilus - https://www.nautilushealth.org/Kynexions - https://kynexions.com/ Dave Chase - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chasedave/Podcast Website - https://relocalizinghealth.com/
