David Goldhill

In September 2009, Goldhill was the author of the cover story in The Atlantic titled How American Health Care Killed My Father.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/09/how-american-health-care-killed-my-father/307617/|title=How American Health Care Killed My Father|last=Goldhill|first=David|date=2009-09-01|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-12}}{{cite news |last1=Roy |first1=Avik |title=David Goldhill's Dream for Universal, Consumer-Driven Health Care |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/aroy/2013/01/23/david-goldhills-dream-for-universal-consumer-driven-health-care/#d628bbb2ae4d |work=Forbes |date=January 23, 2013}} In the article and other stories in Bloomberg, The New York Times,{{Cite news |last=Brooks |first=David |date=2009-09-04 |title=Opinion {{!}} Let’s Get Fundamental |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/opinion/04brooks.html |access-date=2023-10-08 |issn=0362-4331}} The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, Goldhill has noted that the problems in American health care are the intermediaries that serve as the primary customers – employers, insurance companies and government insurers. As for his writing, health care providers are more responsive to the needs of those intermediaries than to the needs of patients. Though his writings focus on increasing the role of consumers and markets in driving health care innovation, Goldhill also argued that America's highly politicized policy-making had led to extensive industry capture of Medicare, Medicaid, and other government health programs, warping their mission.

Goldhill has published three books on health care:

1. Catastrophic Care: Why Everything We Think We Know about Health Care Is Wrong (Knopf, 2013){{Cite book|title=Catastrophic Care: Why Everything We Think We Know about Health Care Is Wrong {{!}} Amazon.com: Books|isbn=978-0345802736|language=en-US|last1=Goldhill|first1=David|year=2013}}
2. New York’s Next Health Care Revolution, co-edited with Paul Howard (Manhattan Institute 2015){{Cite web|url=https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/new-yorks-next-health-care-revolution-how-public-and-private-employers-can-empower-patients-and|title=New York's Next Health Care Revolution: How Public and Private Employers Can Empower Patients and Consumers|date=2015-09-08|website=Manhattan Institute|language=en|access-date=2019-04-22}}
3. The Real Costs of American Health Care (Vintage 2016){{Cite web|url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/552430/the-real-costs-of-american-health-care-by-david-goldhill/9780525433149|title=The Real Costs of American Health Care by David Goldhill {{!}} PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books|website=PenguinRandomhouse.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-22}}

For Goldhill's article in The Atlantic, David Brooks from The New York Times wrote “If I were magically given an hour to help Barack Obama prepare for his health care speech next week, the first thing I’d do is ask him to read David Goldhill’s essay.”{{cite news |last1=Brooks |first1=David |title=Let's Get Fundamental |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/opinion/04brooks.html?mtrref=mail.google.com&gwh=BD317DB5B6F1D74E22E0109E02850BB7&gwt=pay&assetType=REGIWALL |work=The New York Times |date=September 3, 2009}} Fareed Zakaria on CNN called it “The best article I have read on American health care”{{cite web |last1=Zakaria |first1=Fareed |title=Fareed Zakaria GPS - GPS: Brill & Goldhill debate health care |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nuokTuMv-4 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211220/_nuokTuMv-4 |archive-date=2021-12-20 |url-status=live|publisher=CNN}}{{cbignore}} and John Schwenker at The American Conservative referred to it as “maybe the best writing on health care”.{{cite web |last1=SCHWENKLER |first1=John |title=Maybe the Best Thing I've Read on Health Care Reform |url=https://www.theamericanconservative.com/schwenkler/maybe-the-best-thing-ive-read-on-health-care-reform/ |publisher=The American Conservative}} Juliet Eilperin of The Washington Post felt that David's book, Catastrophic Care, “provided a persuasive case for applying free-market principles and greater transparency to the health-care industry”.{{cite news |last1=Eilperin |first1=Juliet |title=Gruesome tales from a dysfunctional health care system |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/gruesome-tales-from-a-dysfunctional-health-care-system/2017/05/19/589e7f92-1fb2-11e7-ad74-3a742a6e93a7_story.html?noredirect=on |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=May 19, 2017}}

Goldhill's book Catastrophic Care was criticized by Arnold Relman, from The New York Review of Books, arguing that the system Goldhill advocates for is “unfair to patients with limited means, because it forces them to choose between spending on medical care they might need and saving their funds for other needed or desired purposes.”{{cite magazine |last1=Relman |first1=Arnold |title='Catastrophic Care': An Exchange |url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2013/10/24/catastrophic-care-exchange/ |website=www.nybooks.com |publisher=The New York Review of Books}}

From 2007 to 2017 Goldhill was the CEO of GSN,[http://corp.gsn.com/corporate-info GSN Corporate] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100309104932/http://corp.gsn.com/corporate-info |date=2010-03-09 }} Retrieved October 21, 2009 the operator of the cable Game Show Network.{{cite news |last1=Holloway |first1=David |title=GSN CEO David Goldhill Sets Departure From Cable Channel |url=https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/gsn-ceo-david-goldhill-1202399688/ |publisher=Variety}} As chairman and CEO of INTH (Independent Network Television Holdings), he founded the TV3 Russia national broadcast network which was acquired by Interros Group in 2007 for $550 million.{{cite news |last1=Holdsworth |first1=Nick |title=Interros grows with $550 mil TV3 purchase |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/interros-grows-550-mil-tv3-140392 |publisher=The Hollywood Reporter |date=October 24, 2006}} He was also the president and CEO of television for Universal Studios, up to its acquisition by GE in 2004.{{cite news |last1=Carter |first1=Bill |title=$550 million 'Law & Order' deal would be biggest in TV history |url=https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/550-million-Law-Order-deal-would-be-biggest-2612377.php |publisher=SF Gate |date=June 3, 2003}} He was the chief financial officer of Act III Communications, a private production company.{{cite news |last1=Moss |first1=Linda |title=Goldhill Succeeds Cronin Atop GSN |url=https://www.multichannel.com/news/goldhill-succeeds-cronin-atop-gsn-369714 |publisher=Multichannel News |date=July 25, 2007}} Goldhill has served as director for CommerceHub (CHUBA),{{cite news |last1=Diana |first1=Chelsea |title=CommerceHub board includes former Huffington Post, Barnes and Noble CEOs |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/albany/news/2016/07/18/commercehub-board-includes-former-huffington-post.html |publisher=Biz Journals |date=July 18, 2016}} Expedia (EXPE),{{cite web |title=Profile |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/person/4695068 |publisher=Bloomberg}} and eLong (LONG).{{cite web |title=ELONG, INC. REPORTS RESIGNATION OF AUDIT COMMITTEE MEMBER |url=https://viewfinder.expedia.com/elong-inc-reports-resignation-of-audit-committee-member/ |publisher=Expedia}}

As of 2019, Goldhill is the co-founder and CEO of Sesame, an online marketplace for discounted health services serving uninsured patients and other direct-pay customers; and chair of the board of directors of the Leapfrog Group, an independent national employer-sponsored organization focused on hospital and medical safety.{{Cite web|url=https://www.leapfroggroup.org/about/board-directors|title=The Leapfrog Group Board of Directors|date=2019-08-09|website=The Leapfrog Group|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-09}}

Goldhill graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and holds a master's degree in history from New York University.

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