Out of Patients
with Matthew Zachary
Welcome to 2026: The Year of the Patient where the sick shall inherit the ballot.
Charles Dickens Would Have Loved American Healthcare
Modern medicine can do things Charles Dickens could barely imagine. American healthcare then wraps those miracles in bureaucracy he would recognize immediately. Tiny Tim, Oliver Twist, Scrooge, and Bleak House enter the patient portal.
America’s Newest Healthcare Industry Is Protecting Us From American Healthcare
American healthcare has spawned a multibillion-dollar navigation industry to help patients use the care they already pay for. Advocates solve real problems. The stranger question is why the system creates so much demand for them.
The First Patient Poll That Actually Belongs to You, The Patient
Every major source of patient data in this country is compromised by whoever paid for it. The We The Patients National Patient Perspectives Poll changes that. 5 minutes. Anonymous. The data belongs to patients, not institutions.
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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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