After 30 years inside the healthcare system, Matthew Zachary watches his story and thousands of others come to life in a cinematic trailer for We the Patients and explains why this project now reaches far beyond a book.

I paid $13.18 for a 90 day prescription through Cost Plus. Walgreens charged $30 with insurance. Same drug. Same supply. This is what PBMs do to pricing and why transparency exposes the middlemen.

American healthcare delays care and denies treatment by design. Insurance rules, prior authorization, and administrative barriers control access to care, often slowing or blocking what doctors recommend and patients need.

Monique Gore Massy spent 2.5 years misdiagnosed while lupus shut her body down. This episode exposes bias, diagnostic delay, and the cost of dismissing patients who “look fine,” and what happens when lived experience demands real authority.