What's Your Backstory?: Chapter's Cobi Blumenfeld-Gantz
The Dr. Laura Podcast
Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM
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🗓️ 13 July 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, I'm happy to be speaking to Kobe Blumenfeld-Gentz. |
| 0:10.8 | Did I say it right? |
| 0:12.0 | That was perfect. |
| 0:13.0 | Close enough. |
| 0:14.0 | Okay, perfect is even better. |
| 0:15.0 | He's the co-founder and CEO of Chapter, which is an independent Medicare advisory service. |
| 0:22.6 | Now, the first thing, we just met 15 seconds ago. |
| 0:26.1 | How old are you? |
| 0:28.1 | I'm 36. I look like I'm 20, but I'm actually 30. |
| 0:31.6 | Okay, you're 15. What does Medicare have to do with your life? |
| 0:35.6 | You're very young. |
| 0:36.6 | Sometimes more than I'd like. |
| 0:40.3 | How did you get into this? I mean, really. Yeah, I saw my parents navigating the process, |
| 0:46.4 | the Medicare process, and that's how I initially got exposed to it. Actually, initially was my |
| 0:49.5 | grandfather because my grandfather was living with my parents and me when I was in high school. |
| 0:54.3 | But a few years ago, I just got really upset at seeing my parents go through the process and how |
| 0:59.8 | complicated it was for them. And I don't come from health care or insurance background. |
| 1:04.4 | I worked at a technology and data company. And I just thought the whole process made no sense. |
| 1:09.0 | There are a lot of data challenges in Medicare that my parents were going through. And it's just like, why is the system like this? |
| 1:15.1 | I wanted to do something about it. So what did you discover about the system first before you got |
| 1:19.7 | into remedying it for people? The incentives are really misaligned. It's probably the most |
| 1:25.7 | obvious thing I saw at the beginning. Most Medicare |
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