Cancer patients increasingly rely on AI and patient networks to navigate a healthcare system built around fragmentation and administrative burden. Brad Power explains why patients now trust technology more than the institutions designed to care for them

Every year I leave ASCO with hundreds of selfies that become one giant mosaic. This year’s image tells a bigger story than the science alone. It captures the people, conversations, and growing realization that the next challenge in cancer care isn’t discovery. It’s making sure patients can reach it.

A retired firefighter’s denied cancer treatment reveals a larger truth about American healthcare. Administrative friction has become an economic strategy that shifts costs onto patients and physicians while delaying care in ways the system rarely measures but patients always feel.

Cancer patients increasingly absorb the financial risk of surviving disease in America. A brain cancer survivor examines how healthcare incentives, insurance design, and policy decisions shifted instability onto patients and families while institutions protect margins.

23,000 people follow me on LinkedIn. They are patients, caregivers, and clinicians dealing with insurance denials, medical debt, and delays in care. Here is what they are seeing every day and why it reflects a much larger problem across US healthcare.