Mark Cuban exposes PBM corruption and champions transparent drug pricing. He is right about generics. He is wrong about cash solving catastrophic care. A brain cancer survivor explains why $12 prescriptions and $960,000 transplants live in different universes.

In 2025, seven insurers generated $1.7 trillion in revenue and $54 billion in profit while covering 10 million fewer people. Premiums hit $26,993 for families. Public funding expanded. Consolidation deepened. The incentive structure driving American health insurance stands exposed.

Blue Cross Blue Shield settled a 2.67 billion antitrust lawsuit in 2020 after restricting competition for more than a decade. Payments begin in 2026. Six years later, customers get checks while insurers move on. Here is what happened and why it keeps happening.

Jenny Opalinski worked ICU floors where 10 to 15 traumatic events can hit in a single shift. In EP432 of Out of Patients she confronts clinician burnout, moral injury, and the cost of empathy in healthcare. A raw conversation about survival inside a system that grinds people down.

Matthew Zachary reads from We the Patients for the first time at the Cervivor Summit. Surrounded by cervical cancer survivors, he breaks down while honoring families crushed by medical debt and systemic failure. A defining moment ahead of the book’s May 2026 release.

UnitedHealth dropping Medicare Advantage plans for 600000 beneficiaries exposes a structural flaw in how private insurers manage public healthcare risk as costs from emergency care and specialty drugs accelerate faster than payment models can adjust.

Berklee trained composer Sarah Gromko left film scoring for speech language pathology and now helps adults recover voice after stroke, ALS, brain injury, and cancer. In EP431 she explains aphasia and motor speech disorders and shares how melody helped a 16 year old gunshot survivor say I love you Mom again.

Health systems consolidate. Insurers post record profits. Employers spend $20,000 per employee on coverage while workers fight denials alone at 11 pm. Insurance middlemen now cost more than the drugs. The system rewards delay and calls it complexity. Families call it Tuesday.

Mount Sinai and Anthem fight over 450 million dollars while 200000 patients scramble to keep their doctors and cancer treatment. Corporate contract disputes now function as leverage tactics, turning patients into bargaining chips in rate negotiations.

National healthcare leaders put their names on We The Patients because they recognize what patients have endured for decades. From Scientific American to former Medicaid and CDC officials, these endorsements validate a movement to reclaim power from a system that failed the people it was built to serve.

A personal reflection on Gil Bashe’s Healing the Sick Care System and the growing revolt against insurance driven harm. From hospital memories to national accountability, this piece calls out who holds the wheel and why 2026 signals the rise of the patient voter bloc.

Blue Cross Blue Shield says insurers protect patients from high drug prices. The real world shows delays, denials, and blame shifting while patients wait, appeal, and deteriorate. A closer look at how insurers deflect responsibility in the drug pricing debate.

The new bipartisan proposal to separate insurers, PBMs, and providers targets the financial structure behind rising costs and denials. This piece explains how ownership concentration reshaped care, why regulation failed, and what structural separation could change for patients.

A new KFF poll shows prior authorization now ranks as the biggest burden in American healthcare. Delays and denials affect nearly half of insured adults, with severe mental, financial, and physical consequences. Patients across every plan agree.

We The Patients LIVE Raleigh brought patients clinicians policymakers and journalists into the same room to confront how healthcare harm actually forms. What emerged was clarity accountability and the beginning of a different kind of conversation about power trust and consequence.

Health insurers turned “medically necessary” into a denial weapon. This article breaks down how coverage policies, anonymous medical directors, and financial incentives allow insurers to override doctors and block cancer care, then outlines concrete fixes that could shut the system down.

Shannon Burkett joins Out of Patients to tell the story of her son’s lead poisoning, the systems that failed him, and how she turned rage into action. Actor, nurse, filmmaker, and mother breaking down how environmental harm hides in plain sight.

Insurance companies promise reform while patients absorb delay and denial. From IVIG rejections to cancer imaging hold ups, this essay documents how prior authorization functions in real life and why patients now recognize the pattern.

An open letter to Mark Cuban on why the Great Healthcare Plan fails patients. It leaves PBM power intact, ignores pricing abuse, and turns transparency into theater. Patients already know how often claims get denied. We live it every day.