Out of Patients
with Matthew Zachary
Welcome to 2026: The Year of the Patient where the sick shall inherit the ballot.
23,000 LinkedIn Followers and the Reality of US Healthcare
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.
This Week In Cuban: Our Patron Saint Is Still Doing The Lord’s Work.
Mark Cuban is stepping in where insurers fail, funding care and challenging the system. But real change will not come from policy alone. A unified patient voting bloc could reshape healthcare power in America.
I went on Humanity Rx to say the quiet part clearly and attach names, timelines, and consequences to it.
Matthew Zachary joins Humanity Rx to break down how modern cancer care improves survival while leaving patients exposed to medical debt, prior authorization delays, and financial risk, and why policy change depends on organized patient power.
Healthcare Is a Private Tax Triggered by Diagnosis
Gallup reports 82 million Americans cut back on daily life to afford healthcare. Coverage shifts financial risk to families through deductibles and prior authorization. Diagnosis now operates like a private tax on survival and forces tradeoffs across work, housing, and retirement.
Breaking Up Big Medicine
The new bipartisan proposal to separate insurers, PBMs, and providers targets the financial structure behind rising costs and denials. This piece explains how ownership concentration reshaped care, why regulation failed, and what structural separation could change for patients.
Freedom to Go Broke
After surviving brain cancer at 21, Matthew Zachary examines how modern healthcare policy repackages risk as freedom. From cash subsidies to math free promises, this essay exposes why consumer style healthcare fails the moment illness enters the room.
[WHAT IF?] Mark Cuban Ran for President on Healthcare?
The next national election will be shaped by a reality pollsters struggle to explain: one insurance letter or specialist bill can wipe out a family. What if Mark Cuban ran for president on healthcare, and only healthcare, treating it as the defining economic issue of American life?