What if Healthcare Staff Owned the Practice Too?

September 3, 2025
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Doctors are not entrepreneurs? Think again.

In this conversation, Yoni Rechtman sits down with Alex Barrett, Chief Executive Officer of Meroka, to explore a question reshaping the future of healthcare: what if healthcare staff owned the practice too?

Together, they discuss why private practice is not dead, why consolidation is not the cure all, and why the real innovation in healthcare might be employee ownership that rewards the people delivering care rather than only those financing it.

The healthcare system, not doctors, is broken. But there is another way forward.

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