A blinking answering machine. That's how I found out I had brain cancer. I was 21. Thirty years later, I wrote a book about it. "We the Patients" isn't a memoir—it's a manual. The system isn't broken. It was built this way. Don't try to fix it. Rig it in your favor. This book shows you how.

Congress left for vacation knowing ACA subsidies would expire. In 2026 premiums spiked as high as 114 percent, millions face dropping coverage, and patients carry the cost. This is not partisan politics. This is survival, access, and who gets left behind.