Now more than ever…
America is in pain.
Every year, tens of millions of Americans face illness. You know what’ll make you really feel sick? Prior authorizations, delays, denials, and appeals.
In a system designed to protect profits over patients, it’s time for a second opinion.
The prescription for what ails us all.
A patient proclamation for fighting back.
Millions of Americans are exhausted and angry.
Pushed to the edge by a system that gaslights, bankrupts, and abandons them, while calling it care.
Your health insurance shouldn’t determine whether you live or die.
We have the right to a healthcare system designed to help us, not harm us.
It’s up to us to change it.
We the Patients gives you the power to:
Understand rights you didn’t know you had
Channel anger into leverage
Take back control of your own healthcare decisions
We have had enough.
We, the survivors.
We, the caregivers.
We, the parents.
We, the veterans.
We, the grieving.
We, the people.
WE, THE PATIENTS.
THE AMERICAN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM ISN’T BROKEN.
IT WAS BUILT THIS WAY
It’s time to rig the system in our favor.
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“We the Patients is essential reading for Americans wronged by our convoluted healthcare system and lays out a revolutionary solution that gives power back to patients."
– Jeremy Abbate, Publisher, Scientific American
“ESSENTIAL READING.”
“We The Patients restores humanity to healthcare. Matthew blends critique with hope and reminds us what’s at stake when we stop listening to patients.”
— Henry S Friedman, MD, Deputy Director of the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke University Medical Center
“RESTORES HUMANITY.”
“A clarion call for how we can all work together to rig the system in order to better serve the needs of patients, not corporate interests.”
— Wendell Potter, Healthcare Whistleblower, Publisher and Executive Editor of HEALTH CARE un-Covered
“A CLARION CALL.”
“We The Patients shows why medical progress means nothing without patient accountability. Required reading for anyone shaping cancer care."
– Karen E. Knudsen, MBA PhD, CEO, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, Former CEO, American Cancer Society
“REQUIRED READING.”
“We The Patients brilliantly explains how American healthcare got here while giving hope to millions who have felt unseen navigating it. I could not put this book down."
– Jody Hoyos, CEO, Prevent Cancer Foundation
“A BRILLIANT EXPLAINER.”
“Matthew lays the groundwork for the coming healthcare revolution, led by cancer survivors and the people who love and care for them, to change the system that failed them."
– Lisa C. Richardson, MD, MPH, Former Division Director, Cancer Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
“A HEALTHCARE REVOLUTION.”
“We The Patients gives voice to the people who live inside the data. Matthew shows how stories and science together can make healthcare more honest and more human.”
– Jim Weiss, Founder & Chairman, Real Chemistry
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“Matthew Zachary is a truth telling, straight shooter who draws from his experiences as a cancer survivor to educate us. We The Patients belongs to every person fatigued, frustrated, and forsaken by the maze that passes for our healthcare system.”
– Lisa Fitzpatrick, MD, MPH, MPA Former Chief Medical Officer, Medicaid
“We The Patients reframes patients not as endpoints or data sources, but as essential partners in progress. This book belongs in the hands of anyone designing the future of care..”
– Jessica Federer, Former Chief Digital Officer Bayer AG
“We The Patients explains why patients feel angry and lost and shows they are not failing the system. The system is failing them.”
– Barb Collura, Former CEO, RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association
“Matthew Zachary has given voice to what patients and advocates have long known—our system works best when it truly listens..”
– Candice Roth, MSN, RN, CENP, Executive Director, AONN+
“I've operated inside this broken system and been crushed by it. We the Patients is the wake-up call and the roadmap to fix it.”
– LynAnn Henderson, Founder & CEO, Kynexions, RosettaFest Co-Creator
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