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Relocalizing Health with Dave Chase

Relocalizing Health with Dave Chase

How Wisconsin School Districts Built Better Health Plans and Curbed Rising Healthcare Costs

Oct 23, 2026 · 32m

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Welcome to Relocalizing Health. In this episode, Dave Chase sits down with Brian Adesso, Director of Business Services for the Menasha Joint School District and President of the Employer Healthcare Cooperative of Wisconsin (EHCW), to explore how a group of Wisconsin employers, including school districts and private companies, joined forces to fight skyrocketing healthcare costs. Together, they created a cooperative model that now covers over 23,000 people and has cut out-of-pocket expenses fo...