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Healthcare’s Hidden Star: Why Fixing the System Starts in the Middle

Why does the U.S. healthcare system feel so complex, expensive, and impossible to fix? In this eye-opening episode, healthcare strategist Judith Kunisch joins Joe Pardavila to demystify the labyrinth of American healthcare through the lens of her book, The Center of the Star: Understanding and Changing the US Healthcare System. Drawing on decades of frontline experience—from bedside nursing to Fortune 100 executive leadership—Kunisch breaks down the system’s five interconnected sectors (patients/consumers, payers, providers, policymakers, and the "health industrial complex") and reveals why…

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