Relentless Health Value

Let’s talk about one aspect of health care that’s not talked about possibly often enough: big national health care players siphoning money out of local communities—potentially a lot of money depending on where you are and considering that health care is inching toward about 20% of the GDP. But besides the money leaving the community, another downside of large national players is that sometimes problems—even kind of seemingly simple problems—can be totally intractable and unsolvable because there’s just so much diversity of need and intricacies if you’re trying to come up with a broad-stroke solution that works for everybody across the land. On the other hand, by thinking and acting locally, these same problems can be solved. Besides, at a local scale, community and relationships within the community can become powerful forces for good. In this context, I was super thrilled to have had the chance to interview Dan Strause from Hometown Pharmacy and Drew Leatherberry from Avergent about a collaboration model the