David Goldhill

David Goldhill is the co-founder and CEO of Sesame, a cash-pay online marketplace where patients buy doctor visits, labs, and prescriptions at fixed prices with no insurance in between. A former entertainment executive who ran the Game Show Network for a decade, he turned healthcare critic after his father died of a hospital-acquired infection, wrote the 2009 Atlantic cover story 'How American Health Care Killed My Father' and the book 'Catastrophic Care,' then built the company that tries to fix what he spent years writing about. He chairs the board of the patient-safety nonprofit Leapfrog Group and is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.