Disruptive Dialogue with Chuck Melendi

Chuck Melendi

chuck@disruptivedialogue.org

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Booking Overview

Interview-driven healthcare reform show focused on the failures of the U.S. healthcare system, featuring external guests with direct expertise in healthcare operations, pharmacy, public policy, and community impact. PR agencies could credibly pitch healthcare executives, policy researchers, pharmacy leaders, benefits experts, and reform advocates with substantive, practical perspectives; booking difficulty is medium.

Metrics

Episodes: 37

Frequency: Biweekly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: <1k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

YouTube: 153 subscribers

Instagram: 284 followers

Contact Information

chuck@disruptivedialogue.org

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Host

Chuck Melendi - Retired healthcare industry executive with 35 years of experience in the healthcare sector, focused on exposing systemic failures affecting patients, providers, employers, and businesses.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Healthcare executives, pharmacy and benefits professionals, public-policy specialists, nonprofit community-impact leaders, and reform advocates with direct professional experience and a well-supported perspective on systemic healthcare problems.
Required Achievements:  
Executive leadership in healthcare, pharmacy, benefits, or community-impact organizations, Development or application of policy research and reform frameworks, Founding or leading established healthcare media, advocacy, or professional organizations, Substantive experience addressing healthcare access, affordability, or system design

Recent Guest Discussions

Todd Eury - Pharmacy Benefit Managers, Pharmacy Burnout, Prescription Drug Pricing, Vertical Integration, Pharmacy Competition, And Evidence-based Medical Podcasting.

Doug Griesenauer - The ALICE Framework, The Federal Poverty Level, Working-family Financial Hardship, Public Assistance, Wages, Healthcare Access, And Policy Solutions.

Doug Griesenauer - ALICE Research, Financially Struggling Working Households, Poverty Thresholds, Benefit Cliffs, And The Relationship Between Financial Instability And Healthcare Access.

Recent Topics

Healthcare Reform, Health Policy, Pharmacy, Healthcare Industry, Patient Advocacy

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Disruptive Dialogue with Chuck Melendi
:

The RX Podfather on PBMs, Pharmacy Burnout, and the Fight to Save Your Pharmacist | ft. Todd Eury, founder of the Pharmacy Podcast Network

July 15, 2026

Your pharmacist may be the last line of defense between you and a dangerous medication mistake — and the system is grinding them into the ground.This week, Chuck talks with Todd Eury, founder of the Pharmacy Podcast Network and the original voice of pharmacy podcasting since 2009, about the forces hollowing out one of healthcare's most trusted professions.With 17 years and more than 4,000 episodes behind him, Todd has watched PBMs evolve from a genuinely useful flat-fee service into multi-tri...

The ALICE Crisis (pt 2): How America Can Stop Failing Its Working Families

June 29, 2026

In Part 1 of this series, Doug Griesenauer and I laid out the problem: 42% of American households are financially struggling right now, not because they aren't working, but because the federal poverty level — a formula built on 1955 grocery data — still determines who qualifies for help in 2026. Now in Part 2, we get into what we actually do about it.Doug returns to walk through the things that change practically and politically if policymakers adopt the ALICE threshold instead of the fed...

The ALICE Crisis: Why 42% of Working Americans Struggle to Make Ends Meet

June 19, 2026

Did you know that the federal poverty level was built on grocery price data from 1955 — and has never been updated to reflect how we live in America today? In this episode, Chuck sits down with Doug Griesenauer, VP of Community Impact at United Way Suncoast in central Florida, to unpack one of the most overlooked crises in our country: the gap between who our safety net programs offer to help and who actually needs it.They dig into ALICE — "Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed" — a res...

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