Out of Patients
with Matthew Zachary
Welcome to 2026: The Year of the Patient where the sick shall inherit the ballot.
How I’d Spend $1 Billion to Fix Healthcare Alongside Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban attacks healthcare through pricing transparency and market discipline. I would attack it through patient infrastructure, legal protection, accountability, and civic power. Together, those strategies could finally begin realigning the incentives driving American healthcare.
It’s Time For A Second Opinion
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.
Welcome to 2026: Congress Left for Vacation While Your Premiums Exploded
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.
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Join the recurring Out of Patients dispatch from Matthew Zachary covering the latest American healthcare shenanigans. Essays, podcast episodes, media appearances, book updates, and live events delivered with a sardonic Gen X perspective from a patient who simply refuses to shut up.
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