# Fixing Employer Healthcare: Donovan Pyle on Fiduciary Benefits, Eliminating Waste, and Protecting Employee Welfare

An episode of [The Amazing Authorities Podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1821833908), 10 Dec 2025, 48 min.

Audio: https://anchor.fm/s/10513f064/podcast/play/112407279/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-11-10%2Fdd8dfe28-8778-10bc-2293-6802054fcaf2.m4a

In this episode of Amazing Authorities, Mitch Carson sits down with Donovan Pyle, healthcare benefits expert and author of Fixing Health Care. Donovan breaks down the staggering 25% waste inside America’s employer-sponsored healthcare system and explains why employers are losing billions due to pricing failures, opaque networks, and misaligned incentives. He reveals how fee-based fiduciary consulting flips the model, aligns incentives, and helps employers save thousands per employee per year. Donovan also explains the rise of alternative vendors beyond the big PBMs, the massive savings available through competitive procurement, and why optimizing health benefits is now critical for retention, profitability, and long-term competitiveness. In This Episode, You’ll Learn: • Why 25% of employer-sponsored healthcare spending is wasted due to pricing failures • How opaque PPO networks hide 1,000% price differences for identical procedures • Why traditional brokers benefit from rising premiums and cannot act in employers’ best interests • How the fee-based fiduciary model mirrors the 401(k) industry transformation • Why healthcare costs rising 6–10% annually threaten employee retention • How companies with 200–10,000 employees are saving up to $1,856 per employee per year • Why exploring alternative vendors beyond the big three PBMs unlocks major savings • How procurement and RFPs can immediately uncover millions in avoidable overspending • The six-step roadmap from Donovan’s book for reclaiming wasted healthcare dollars • Why fixing healthcare improves competitiveness, reduces turnover, and strengthens the economy Fixing Health Care Book: https://fixinghealthcare.com Executive Summary Download: https://fixinghealthcare.com Company / Consulting: https://www.goplumely.com ------------------ Schedule a strategy call with Mitch: https://www.getinterviewedguaranteed.com/meetwithmitch Become a podcast guest: https://www.getinterviewedguaranteed.com/podcastguest Find Mitch here: https://www.mitchcarson.com/ https://www.facebook.com/MitchCarsonOfficial/ https://www.instagram.com/mitchcarsonofficial/ https://www.twitter.com/MCarsonOfficial/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitchcarsoninstantcelebrity/ https://www.youtube.com/@MitchCarsonOfficial Books by Mitch Carson: The Amazing Authors of Singapore: https://a.co/d/cp9KjC1 The Silent Salesmen: https://a.co/d/b4eqa2D

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