Welcome to Industry Focus, the show that dives into a different sector of the stock market every single day.

Today is Wednesday, July the 17th, and I'm your host Shannon Jones.

Today's industry focus health care show is all about a company called Health Equity.

A company truly transforming the way we save and pay for health care expenses. I mean this company has really

truly taken the world by storm. We've covered it a few times on the show and

now it's even garnered the attention of Motleyfold co-founder and CEO Tom Gardner.

Tom and I recently had the chance to sit down with Health Equity CEO John Kessler to talk about

the company how they're positioned to help fix our broken health care

system, and the rationale of that wage works acquisition. So sit back, take a

listen, and hope you enjoy.

John Kessler from Health Equity, thank you so much for joining us.

And I think I'd just like to start at a very high level

by hearing from you what you think of our health care system overall.

This is a very unfair question to start with. What do you think what's wrong with it and what you think what's wrong with it and

what health equity is doing to try and fix an aspect of a of a system that a lot of people think needs repair.

Well, let's take the unusual tact of starting and saying what's right with it.

Great.

Yeah, I mean, I think it's important to understand what we're trying to protect in the

healthcare system and what we're trying to protect is the level of innovation that's generated by the U.S.

health care system and the miracles that it does in fact perform.

If you are anywhere in the world and you are truly sick then

this is the place you want to be what our system doesn't deliver well for is the

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