BOOK DAVE CHASE
Keynote speaker, movement builder, and the person who documented how employers are already winning the healthcare fight.
Author. Speaker. Co-Founder, Health Rosetta. Creator, RosettaFest
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Dave’s Signature Talks
- Healthcare Transformation for Communities
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.
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- The Future We choose
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.
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- The AI Catalyst
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.
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- How to avoid the US Healthcare Disaster
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.
Customization options are stated here to show there is flexibility inthe conversation
Dave Speaks RosettaFest 2024 Transparency Champions Awards
The AI Crossroads: How Communities Choose Between Crisis and Catalyst
Available Formats
KEYNOTE
60 to 90 minutes. Full presentation with Q&A. Suited for conferences, associations, and major employer events.
BREAKOUT
45 to 60 minutes. Deeper dive on a single topic. Ideal for employer benefits meetings, HR leadership sessions, and advisory firm events.
WORKSHOP
Half day or full day. Interactive working session. For coalitions, health plan committees, and leadership teams ready to build a plan.
VIRTUAL
All formats available virtually. Full production support available through Health Rosetta’s team.
Audience Fit
BEST FOR
Employers and HR leaders managing self-funded health plans. Benefits advisors and consultants. Association and conference organizers in the healthcare, business, and public sector space. Mayors, county commissioners, and economic development leaders. Hospital systems and clinician groups exploring direct employer partnerships.
NOT A FIT FOR
General consumer health audiences. Events seeking motivational or personal development content.
Dave’s Recent Speaking Engagements
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