Creating a New Healthcare

Zeev Neuwirth

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Healthcare reform, examined at working depth.

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Creating a New Healthcare is a measured interview series about how healthcare actually works for patients, clinicians, employers, and healthcare leaders. Recent conversations move from cancer treatment gaps and cash-based medicine to nutrition, primary care, lifestyle medicine, and employer-based healthcare.

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About Creating a New Healthcare

Creating a New Healthcare is a long-running interview series about the mechanics of healthcare and the lives caught inside those mechanics. It is not a quick-take policy show. The conversations give guests room to explain how a care model, benefit design, clinical standard, or market approach actually behaves once it reaches patients and clinicians. Recent episodes move across cancer access, cash-based medicine, nutrition, lifestyle medicine, employer benefits, primary care, and health data. The throughline is practical. What does better care require, who has to change behavior, and where do today’s systems make that harder than it should be? In the cancer episode, Dr. Yousuf Zafar describes the strain on community oncologists as evidence and new drug indications multiply quickly. The show turns that into a larger question about guideline-concordant care and the gap between medical progress and everyday delivery. In the cash-based conversation with Jess Craig, the focus shifts to clinics and surgical centers that publish prices, avoid insurance billing, and argue for a different relationship between cost and quality. The tone stays curious but skeptical. Claims about higher quality or better access are treated as questions that need evidence, not applause. The Living Well episodes bring the same style to personal health, especially weight, hunger, nutrition, and the limits of simple advice. Those conversations acknowledge frustration, self-blame, and the biology behind weight change without turning health into a morality play. Other episodes look at lifestyle medicine, employer-sponsored healthcare, purchaser coalitions, primary care navigation, and data paired with action plans. The show is especially useful for people who want to understand healthcare as a system rather than a set of isolated problems. It speaks to leaders, clinicians, benefits professionals, and thoughtful patients who can follow policy and medicine when they are explained plainly. The editorial center is steady: healthcare should be judged by access, quality, cost, fairness, and whether it helps people get better care in real life.

Made for: For healthcare leaders, clinicians, benefits professionals, policy-minded listeners, and patients who want a clearer view of how care delivery, payment, quality, and access intersect. It suits people willing to sit with detail rather than chase simple fixes.

What sets it apart: The show connects system design to patient consequences, moving from cancer evidence, cash-based models, and employer benefits to nutrition and personal health without changing its careful analytical posture. It gives guests time to explain, then keeps returning to cost, quality, fairness, and scale.

In their own words

A podcast series for healthcare leaders who are looking for fresh perpsectives, bold solutions and inspiration in their journey to advance value based care.

As heard by us

Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026

Healthcare economics becomes concrete through interviews on benefit design, direct payment, care quality, and the operational gaps between medical knowledge and access.

Creating a New Healthcare turns healthcare reform into a practical interview about who pays, who decides, and what changes when incentives are redesigned.

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Free surgery comes with a quality check; Zeb Neuwirth makes you curious about both.

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to know why your employer might waive a surgery cost for a higher-rated provider
to understand what makes keeping up with cancer treatments hard for your community oncologist

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Episode #222 Helping All Cancer Patients Access Hope with Dr. Yousuf Zafar, Chief Medical Officer, AccessHopeApr 15, 2026

The episode makes the pace problem in cancer care feel concrete, without losing sight of the gap.

Zeb Neuwirth treats cancer care as a pace problem: the science keeps moving, but clinicians are still left to carry too much of it on their own. Dr.

Episode #221 Why More Doctors are Billing Their Patients Like it’s the 1920’s withApr 7, 2026

Direct-pay healthcare is framed as a pricing question, not a slogan.

Creating a New Healthcare treats direct-pay medicine as a practical question about cost, access, and who actually benefits when insurance is out of the way.

Living Well Series #5 Getting Rid of Hunger is Not the GoalApr 1, 2026

A clear look at set point theory, hunger, slowdown, and weight regain.

The episode launches a new Living Well series and aims to cut through the noise with evidence-based health and wellness guidance. It explains set point theory in straightforward terms, suggesting that the body pushes back against large weight changes: many people may move within…

Living Well Series #1 Legumes? Protein? Microbiome? What to Eat and Why with Dr. Christopher GardnerOct 3, 2025

An evidence-based health conversation that cuts through the hype.

The episode opens the Living Well series with a straightforward goal: to cut through vendor noise and offer evidence-based guidance on health and wellness.

Episode #198 Health Benefits Done the Right Way with Chelsea Ryckis, Founder and President, Ethos BenefitsApr 22, 2025

Employer health insurance is used as a practical case for quality-based access and cost control.

The piece treats Chelsea Rickus as an award-winning founder and president of Ethos Benefits, using employer health insurance to make a plain case for care that is easier to see and less wasteful.

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Ep 232 – Why Primary Care and Why Now?

(Living Well) How You Treat Your Body Matters with Dr. Grant Zarzour, Founder, Sperity Health

(Living Well) Getting Rid of Hunger is Not the Goal with

(Living Well) Legumes? Protein? Microbiome? What to Eat and Why with Dr. Christopher Gardner

(Living Well) The Formula for Your Health with Tom Frieden, President and CEO, Resolve to Save Lives

(Living Well) Wearables? What to Do with all that Data with Marco Benitez, Founder and CEO, ROOK

(Living Well) Staying Healthy: The Real Deal

Episode #231 Culture Starts with You with Brian Carlson, VP of Patient Experience, Vanderbilt Health

Episode #230 Creating Opportunities for Health Through Design with Abbie Clary, Executive Director, Health for All

Episode #229 PB-What? The Role of the Pharmacy Benefit Manager in American Healthcare Today with Shawn Gremminger, President and CEO, National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions

Episode #228 Lower Cost, Better Outcomes, Greater Efficiency: The Promise of Ambulatory Surgical Centers with Adnan Qureshi, Managing Director, Kaufman Hall

Episode #227 Waiting for Disease is No Longer Medicine with Julie Chen, Chief Medical Officer, Radence

Episode #226 Medicine That Helps People Be Healthy with Daphne Bascom, Chief Operating Officer, The Vegan Gym

Episode #225 Extending the Health Span with Tzipi Strauss, Head of Sheba Longevity Center

Episode #224 Cognitive Decline is No Longer Inevitable with James Maskell and Dr. Kristine Burke

Episode #223 Health Doesn’t Just Happen in the Hospital with Dr. Eve Cunningham, Chief Medical Officer, Cadence

Living Well Series #6 How You Treat Your Body Matters with Dr. Grant Zarzour, Founder, Sperity Health

Episode #222 Helping All Cancer Patients Access Hope with Dr. Yousuf Zafar, Chief Medical Officer, AccessHope

Episode #221 Why More Doctors are Billing Their Patients Like it’s the 1920’s with

Living Well Series #5 Getting Rid of Hunger is Not the Goal

Episode #220 Nutrition is Relevant to Everyone. Help with Nutrition Should be Too with Noah Kotlove, Co-Founder and CEO, Berry Street

Episode #219 A Lifestyle Prescription with Padmaja Patel

Episode #218 Who is Looking Out for Us?: The Plight of the Employer in American Healthcare Game with Shawn Gremminger, President and CEO. National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions

Episode #217 Pairing Data that Matters with a Plan that Works with Scott Conard, Co-Founder and Partner, Converging Health

Episode #216 Primary Care: The Great Navigator with Dr. Marla McLaughlin, CMO, Castlight Health and Vera Whole Health

Episode #215 The Power of the And with Jeff Bak, CEO & President, Imagine360

Episode #214 One System, One Goal: Medicare for All with Troy Brennan, Adjunct Professor, Harvard Chan School of Public Health

Living Well Series #4 Staying Healthy: The Real Deal

Living Well Series #3 The Formula for Your Health with Tom Frieden, President and CEO, Resolve to Save Lives

Episode #213 Are Wearables Worthless? And Supplements…Snakeoil?

Creating a New Healthcare: End of Year Message

Episode #212 How Stories Change Our Opinion with Peter Murphy Lewis, Host, People Worth Caring About

Episode #211 Margin Over Mission: The Great American Healthcare Heist with Chris Deacon, Founder, VerSan Consulting

Episode #210 The Formula for Better Health with Tom Frieden, President and CEO, Resolve to Save Lives

Episode #209 Finding the Words for What People Really Want in Healthcare with Natalie Davis, Co-Founder and CEO, United States of Care

Living Well Series #2 Wearables? What to Do with all that Data with Marco Benitez, Founder and CEO, ROOK

Episode #208 Your Phone is a Health Lab…Seriously with Jason Moore, Founder and CEO, Spren

Episode #207 Boring is Beautiful in the Transformation of American Healthcare: A Conversation with Jess Greenwood, Producer, Creating a New Healthcare

Episode #206 Getting Unbiased Advice Can Save Healthcare with Donovan Pyle, CEO, Health Compass Consulting

Episode #205 The Mindful Edge: How Stillness, Compassion, and Gratitude can Transform Healthcare with Gary Jacobs, Author, The Zen Lobbyist

Episode #204 Data + Analytics = Transparency with Brian Overstreet, Co-Founder, Arbital Health

Living Well Series #1 Legumes? Protein? Microbiome? What to Eat and Why with Dr. Christopher Gardner

Episode #203 Data + Analytics = Transparency with Cammie Wolf Rice, CEO & Founder, CWC Alliance

Episode #202 Smarter Cancer Patients? AI Can Help with That with Steve Brown, Founder and CEO, CureWise

Episode #201 Bringing the Power of AI to the Good Guys with Neal Shah, Co-Founder, Counterforce Health

Episode #200 When Lower Costs Mean Better Care with Deb Ault, RN, MBA, President & Founder, AIMM

Episode #199 The One Big Thing Keeping You from A Healthy Lifestyle with Meghan Garcia-Webb, MD, Host, “Weight Medicine with Dr. Meghan”

Episode #198 Health Benefits Done the Right Way with Chelsea Ryckis, Founder and President, Ethos Benefits

Episode #197 The Mayo Clinic Platform: Augmenting the Human-Healthcare Relationship with AI with John Halamka, President, Mayo Clinic Platform

Episode #196 When Nursing Care Comes Home with You with Jasmine Bhatti, Founder and CEO, Navi Nurses

Episode #195 Taking Healthcare from Kmart to Amazon with Robert Andrews, CEO, Health Transformation Alliance (HTA)

Episode #194 Patients Taking Positive Action in Healthcare with Susannah Fox, Author, Rebel Health: A Field Guide to the Patient-Led Revolution in Medical Care

Episode #193 Doing What’s Good for Patients, Doctors, and Society: A True Partner in Value-Based Care with Farzad Mostashari, CEO, Aledade

Episode #192 Words are Magic: Reimagining the Patient Experience with Erica Olenski, Patient Care Advocate, PR Strategist, Mom

Episode #191 The Healthcare Revolution is Coming with David W. Johnson, Founder and CEO, 4sight Health

Episode #190 Taking Care of People to Take Better Care of Patients with Andrew Molosky, President and CEO, Chapters Health System

Episode #189 Driving the Next Generation of Research and Clinical Care…With Data with Mitesh Rao, MD, MHS, Founder and CEO, OMNY Health

Episode #188 Check Your Premise: What to do when a great product and a thriving market don’t equal a growing business with Mike Murphy Managing Partner, Sunstone Management Advisors

Episode #187 Go Where the Competition Isn’t…To Those That Need it the Most with Dan McDonald, Founder and CEO and Lauren Barca, VP of Quality at 86Borders

Episode #186 Who Really Pays for Higher Healthcare Costs? with Zack Cooper, Associate Professor of Public Health and Economics, Yale University

Episode #185 Humanizing the Medical Supplies Industry with Better Health with Naama Stauber Breckler, CEO of Better Health

Episode #184 Extending Time by Outsourcing Chronic Care Management with Brian Esterly, CEO of TimeDoc Health

Episode #183 Improving Maternal Healthcare in America: Why it’s not just a “Nice to Have” with Ann Somers Hogg, Director of Health Care, Clayton Christensen Institute

Episode #182 The Power of AI in Chronic Disease Management: The Ibis Touch with Piali De, CEO, Senscio

Episode #181 Decrease the Spend, Increase the Profit with Data with David Kirshner, Managing Partner, LogicSource

Special Episode – Doing Humanity in Healthcare with Joe Machiote

Episode #180 Ableism in American Healthcare with Megan Morris, PhD, MPH

Episode #179 A heart doctor’s quest for healing and happiness – with Jonathan Fisher, MD FACC

Episode #178 Is AI the transformational catalyst we’ve been waiting for? – with Robert Pearl, MD, former CEO of Kaiser Permanente

Episode #177 Fighting the ‘Othering’ mindset in Healthcare – with Stella Safo, MD, founder & CEO of ‘Just Equity for Health’

Episode #176 A New Approach to Maintaining Your Motivation & Healthful Habits – with Kyra Bobinet, MD, CEO & founder of Fresh Tri