From Combat Medic to CFO: Real Leadership Lessons Healthcare Executives Won't Tell You

Lt. Col. Jayme Hanson, former CFO overseeing half of the National Capital Region's military healthcare system, shares eye-opening insights about the Defense Health Agency (DHA), veteran suicide epidemic, and why moving military healthcare to private sector care could be a costly mistake. From combat medic to healthcare executive, Hanson exposes the hidden dynamics between politics, healthcare, and the military that most people never see.Lt. Col. Hanson brings decades of experience from serving as a combat medic to leading healthcare operations for major military facilities including Pentagon, Fort Belvoir, and more. His candid perspective on leadership, government inefficiency, and solutions for the veteran crisis is both sobering and hopeful.Timeline:0:00 - Introduction: Healthcare meets military leadership8:28 - Inside military healthcare: The 10M person system nobody knows20:20 - The veteran suicide crisis and PTSD solutions29:44 - Why young Americans are physically and mentally unfit37:30 - How military healthcare actually gets funded42:16 - Leadership advice for fixing the system#MilitaryHealthcare #VeteranCare #DefenseHealthAgency #VeteranSuicide #HealthcareReform #MilitaryLeadership