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Disruptor with a Heart: How Allison De Paoli is Changing Healthcare By Celinda De La Fuente
We have all heard it before, mi gente: a single mother with two young children unsure she could even add her kids to her healthcare plan due to the rising costs of plans without any explanation. Without any warning. But for one young mother sitting across from Allison De Paoli, the question was never about a price hike. It was about safety and care for her own family. It was about what kind of mother she would be if she added herself and not her kids. Though this story is not a rare one, for De Paoli, Founder and Principal of Altiqe Consulting, she was mortified by the scene that played out in front of her. It was a story she had heard before, and lived alongside her clients, more times than she can count. So, De Paoli did what most people would not. She stood up, walked that single mother to HR herself, and got those kids enrolled in CHIP – for a fraction of what the group plan would have cost. And that, mi gente, is the heart of Altiqe Consulting. Instead of accepting that healthcare has to be confusing and expensive, healthcare disruptor De Paoli helps local businesses look under the hood of their health plans, cut out the costly middlemen, and pay local doctors and hospitals fairly and directly, thus keeping el dinero aqui en San Anto. “We help you pay a fair price for healthcare, and for all the healthcare your employees need,” De Paoli states. And the results speak for themselves. One of her clients, a local construction company, was paying $16,500 a month for a single employee’s cancer medica-
tion. De Paoli sourced the same drug for $7,150 a month, cutting that one claim by more than half. Imagine the mutual relief for employer and employee alike. We don’t know what we don’t know. That is exactly why De Paoli’s message to the familias in our communidad is so simple, yet so radical: you are allowed to ask. You are allowed to say no. “I think it is very important that people understand that they can say no, they can ask what something costs,” De Paoli says. Imagine that. We actually have power here. Tenemos poder. All we have to do is question the system when it is not working for our greatest good. And it is that same fearlessness that De Paoli brings as a woman leading in a male-dominated industry. She does not just advocate for herself. She advocates for every woman who comes after her. “Be the woman that other women trust when they’re not in the room,” says De Paoli. And this is exactly why we need more women in seats of power to continue to evolve and make necessary changes. Diversity is the answer to systemic change. We need more leaders with empathy and compassion who are brave enough to say: Vivan las mujeres who ask questions, who say no, and who never forget who they are fighting for.
Learn more about Allison De Paoli: https://altiqe.com/ https://go.altiqe.com/documentary
02 de Agosto de 2026