He is the CEO and co-founder of Sesame,[1] an online marketplace for discounted health services, and chair of the board of directors at the Leapfrog Group, an independent organization for hospital and medical safety.
In September 2009, Goldhill was the author of the cover story in The Atlantic titled How American Health Care Killed My Father.
Though his writings focus on increasing the role of consumers and markets in driving health care innovation, Goldhill also argued that America's highly politicized policy-making had led to extensive industry capture of Medicare, Medicaid, and other government health programs, warping their mission.
[10] Juliet Eilperin of The Washington Post felt that David's book, Catastrophic Care, “provided a persuasive case for applying free-market principles and greater transparency to the health-care industry”.
[20] As of 2019, Goldhill is the co-founder and CEO of Sesame,[1] an online marketplace for discounted health services serving uninsured patients and other direct-pay customers; and chair of the board of directors of the Leapfrog Group, an independent national employer-sponsored organization focused on hospital and medical safety.