Dave Chase
Dave Chase is co-founder of Health Rosetta, the first organization to produce thousands of successes in the largest segment of healthcare (employer-based healthcare that serves 180 million Americans). Health Rosetta’s mission is to scale out the solutions to every community in America. Dave is also the Board Chair of Nautilus Health Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to developing the industry standards and norms for the next healthcare economy that is already larger than the U.S. video game industry. Dave’s pioneering work has influenced federal legislation including the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, and he has been instrumental in empowering organizations throughout the U.S. to cut healthcare costs 20-55% while dramatically improving outcomes.
The author of three books including The CEO’s Guide to Restoring the American Dream, Dave brings audiences real and inspiring solutions from employers and unions already proving healthcare transformation is possible. Dave’s forthcoming book scheduled for release at RosettaFest (summer 2026), Relocalizing Health: Taking Back Healthcare, Rebuilding Communities chronicles the proven roadmap for reclaiming health sovereignty for every community in America.
Dave is focused on amplifying his message of radical hope: The healthcare system won’t fix itself from the top down. But community by community, positive change is unstoppable.
“Dave’s delivery & style are superb – so necessary when dealing with such emotionally charged and potentially contentious issues as healthcare, addiction, and the drastic changes needed in the country to effectively address both. We received rave reviews about Dave from attendees. He is a rock star, and it was a pleasure to have him be part of our conference.”
– Dan Keith
Founder, CEO of IT Starts With Me Health
“Dave joined us in hosting a community leadership forum of influential employers and physicians interested in exploring innovative ideas for providing better, more efficient and cost-effective health care. Dave’s compelling and informative presentation took real world examples from the exam room to the Board room, giving attendees a vision to reimagine how health care is delivered and financed. He inspired everyone to ask what they can do to take health care back.”
– Tom Banning
Texas Academy of family physicians
“Dave Chase is the first and just about only person who has ever been able to give me hope and a real pathway to fundamental change in our convoluted health care system.”
– Paul Shoemaker
Social Venture Partners Int.
“Your guidance regarding common sense healthcare has been a driving force behind why I have become so passionate about changing this industry. Almost every day I suggest to people I meet that they should follow you on LinkedIn….I tell them you provide me chicken soup for my healthcare soul.”
– John Augustine
Benecon
Sample Talks
This talk explores how communities are turning their largest expense into their greatest advantage.
1) The Local: How communities from Alaska to Florida are reclaiming their “rivers of healthcare dollars,” to keep resources local, creating economic multipliers that traditional incentives can’t match.
2) The Health Rosetta Dividend: Dave showcases results from Rosen Hotels (funding college scholarships), Ashtabula Schools (savings preventing layoffs), and Phifer Inc. (scholarships and summer programs).
3) AI-Resistant Infrastructure: How the millions that a typical community wastes in healthcare can fund jobs like health workers and childhood specialists, preparing communities for disruption while strengthening health determinants.
4) The Cooperative Advantage: Why cooperative principles can provide healthcare sovereignty, transcending political divisions while building community.
Discover how healthcare transformation becomes the foundation for education, reduced crime, and community prosperity by redirecting waste into investment.
In this keynote, Dave Chase presents two divergent paths for America’s future and reveals why the choices we make in healthcare will determine whether our communities thrive or decline in an AI-enhanced economy.
1) Two Futures, One Choice: The dystopian path where corporate healthcare continues extracting $1.5 trillion annually while AI displaces workers, versus the transformative path where communities capture that waste to fund an ambitious workforce development initiative in uniquely human domains.
2) Proven Models, Scaled Solutions: How Alaska’s Nuka System, Sweden’s Jönköping County, and thousands of U.S. employers demonstrate that better care at lower costs isn’t theoretical—it’s operational and replicable through the democratized tools now available via Nautilus Health Institute.
3) The Structural Revolution: Why addressing healthcare’s two fundamental flaws—separated funding streams and wrong-scale governance—simultaneously solves the crisis of unsustainable costs AND prepares communities for AI-driven economic transition.
4) From Extraction to Investment: How the cooperative model enables communities to transform healthcare waste into investments in education, arts, cultural programming, and social infrastructure.
Learn how your community can choose the future where healthcare becomes a foundation for prosperity and building thriving places to live and work.
In this compelling keynote, The AI Catalyst: How Crisis Becomes Community Transformation, Dave Chase reveals how artificial intelligence creates an unprecedented opportunity for thriving communities.
1) The Mathematics of Transformation: How a typical 100,000-person community implementing Community-Owned Health Plans can redirect $450 million annually from healthcare waste to fund 3,750 positions while addressing genuine community needs.
2) AI-Resistant Workforce Architecture: The blueprint for employment in distinctly human domains where workers maintain lasting advantages over artificial intelligence, including community health workers, cultural coordinators, early childhood specialists and many other roles.
3) Democratized Infrastructure for Local Action: How open-source resources from Nautilus Health Institute combined with AI tools enable organizations of any size to implement sophisticated transformation while maintaining local control.
4) From Tax to Catalyst: Why communities face a binary choice between paying an “AI Tax” creating unemployment and declining services, or leveraging the “AI Catalyst” by capturing healthcare waste and channeling it into better health outcomes that generate resources for further community investment.
Through real-world examples from Alaska to Florida, Dave demonstrates how healthcare transformation funded by eliminated waste becomes the foundation for communities to turn technological disruption into opportunities for human flourishing.
Dave Chase delivers a practical course for global changemakers who seek to improve health outcomes without falling into the profit-centered model currently straining communities throughout the U.S. leaving 100 million citizens in debt to the medical industrial complex while producing poor health outcomes.
This talk will cover:
- Keep It Local: How communities can and must reclaim their “rivers of healthcare dollars,” keeping resources circulating locally for transformative community impact.
- Utilize the Cooperative Advantage: How cooperatives offer a proven pathway for healthcare sovereignty, transcending political divisions while building the social cohesion to circumvent today’s polarization.
- Implement a “Health Rosetta” Dividend: Real-life examples of how communities can apply healthcare cost savings including Rosen Hotels funding college scholarships, Ashtabula Schools where savings prevent teacher layoffs, and Phifer Inc. funding employee scholarships and summer enrichment programs.
Through real-world examples and forward-thinking strategies, Dave will inspire communities to avoid the disastrous mistakes of the US healthcare industry, and create thriving societies that are healthier, more resilient and able to face the myriad of challenges of the 21st century.
Featured Talk: TEDx Sun Valley
The middle class is being crushed by skyrocketing healthcare costs, but there are common sense solutions to save it. Dave Chase gives us a non-political road map to solving one of America’s biggest problems.
