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Matthew Zachary
@matthewzachary.bsky.social
Patient Rights Activist, Keynote Speaker and Author, We the Patients (Wiley 2026). 30 year brain cancer survivor. Host, healthcare's #1 independent podcast. Healthcare's Unfiltered Voice of Reason.
Today My Book Comes Out. It's Already In Its Second Printing. That Never Happens. open.substack.com/pub/thematth...
Today My Book Comes Out. It's Already In Its Second Printing. That Never Happens.
We the Patients: Understanding, Navigating, and Surviving America’s Healthcare Nightmare officially enters the world today, and before release day even arrived, Wiley ordered a second printing.
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Congrats to @matthewzachary.bsky.social on his inspiring new book "We the Patients", a manifesto for change! I just finished it, and highly recommend studying his ideas to empower all of us when we're seen as "patients". Link: www.amazon.com/Patients-Und... #Booksky #writingcommunity #PublicHealth
YOU SHOULD'T HAVE TO KNOW MARK CUBAN TO GET UNFUCKED FROM AMERICAN HEALTHCARE @mcuban.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/matthe...
YOU SHOULD'T HAVE TO KNOW MARK CUBAN TO GET UNFUCKED FROM AMERICAN HEALTHCARE. Hey Mark, it's me again. Your friendly neighborhood 30-year cancer survivor and civic organizer fanboy you won&#...
YOU SHOULD'T HAVE TO KNOW MARK CUBAN TO GET UNFUCKED FROM AMERICAN HEALTHCARE. Hey Mark, it's me again. Your friendly neighborhood 30-year cancer survivor and civic organizer fanboy you won't talk to...
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I spent 30 years inside American healthcare. As a patient. As a founder. As a watchdog. I finally launched the newsletter I wish existed when I was 21 and fighting for my life. No press releases. No spin. Just receipts. Sign Up at matthewzachary.com/signup
Explanation of Benefits Newsletter — Matthew Zachary
Sign up for Matthew Zachary’s Explanation of Benefits newsletter on healthcare accountability, patient advocacy, policy insights, and media updates
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"The #Transformers Apology Tour" 40 Years Later and Hasbro is FINALLY trying to atone for their sin of killing Optimus Prime in the Transformers movie scarring the lives and memories of millions of GenX 80s kids, myself included. #YouveGotTheTouch #OneShallStand www.instagram.com/reels/DUs1_d...
TRANSFORMERS | 40 years later…it still hits like a truck. Welcome to the Apology Tour. | Instagram
51K likes, 1,301 comments - transformersofficial on February 13, 2026: "40 years later…it still hits like a truck. Welcome to the Apology Tour.".
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Join me at thePoint of Care Marketing Association 2026 NOW Summit Pathways to Care in NYC this March! pocmarketing.swoogo.com/poc-now-summ...
"We had a baby and we bought a house in 2024. We’ve always been responsible with money, and these were life decisions we made based on a sense of our income and bills. Spending nearly $1,000 more a month, that’s not something we factored in." Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/o...
Opinion | Five Americans on Going Broke Paying for Their Health Care
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Insurers call prior authorization reform. Patients live the damage. I documented how denials and delays work exactly as designed, from IVIG to cancer imaging. Read the full piece here: www.matthewzachary.com/blog/prior-a...
Prior Authorization Works Exactly as Designed | Matthew Zachary — Matthew Zachary
Insurance companies call it reform. Patients live the harm. A firsthand examination of how prior authorization delays care, denies treatment, and shifts cost and suffering onto the sickest people.
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From Brain Cancer Diagnosis to Building a Patient Rights Movement - Matthew Zachary @matthewzachary.bsky.social oncodaily.com/voices/matth... #OncoDaily #Oncology #Cancer #Health #Medicine #MedEd #MedOnc #MedNews #BrainCancer
Matthew Zachary: From Brain Cancer Diagnosis to Building a Patient Rights Movement - OncoDaily
Matthew Zachary: From Brain Cancer Diagnosis to Building a Patient Rights Movement / brain cancer, cancer, Headlines, Matthew Zachary, OncoDaily, Oncology
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BOOK LAUNCH! I was 21 when I found out I had brain cancer because a radiologist never returned a call. Thirty years later, I wrote this about why every patient needs a second opinion. www.matthewzachary.com/blog/its-tim...
It's Time For A Second Opinion - We The Patients Book — Matthew Zachary
Brain cancer survivor Matthew Zachary announces "We the Patients," a manual for rigging America's broken healthcare system in your favor. Pre-order now.
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Apparently, I’m the #3 cancer influencer on @linkedin.com (My tumor would be proud). Survived brain cancer at 21 and turned nonviolent revenge into a career. Patients are done waiting for permission. Thanks Favikon Awards!. Updating my bio to Global Top 3 Troublemaker. #HappyThanksgiving
@mcuban.bsky.social accidentally became the Robin Hood of healthcare. He didn’t ask for it. We noticed anyway. Read The Patron Saint of Patients. emz.ee/3J0PtV3
Grateful to @matthewzachary.bsky.social for his deeply probing questions + shared dark humor during our live, unscripted conversation in his famous "Out of Patients" health podcast ~ at: www.outofpatients.com/the-genes-of... #Scicomm #Genetics #Memoir #Raredisease #Newbornscreening #healthcarereform
The Genes of Wrath: Jennifer J. Brown
Jennifer J. Brown is a scientist, a writer, and a mother who never got the luxury of separating those roles. Her memoir When the Baby Is Not OK: Hopes & Genes is a …
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🧬The Genes of Wrath ~ 🎧podcast episode's up! On "Out of Patients" ~ about disconnects between medical knowledge + human connection, rare disease parenting, trauma + survival while flipping the script. www.outofpatients.com/the-genes-of... #raredisease #memoir #PKU #books @matthewzachary.bsky.social
Very excited to see the first episode of a new 🎙️ #podcast project on @matthewzachary.bsky.social 's Out of Patients Network - called Standard Deviation out today. We tell the stories of scientists facing adversity. Thanks MZ for the opportunity! Take a listen www.outofpatients.com/introducing-...
Introducing Standard Deviation EP1: The Impossible Climb
This episode of Standard Deviation features Oliver Bogler in conversation with Dr Na Zhao, a cancer biologist caught in the crossfire of science, politics, and surv…
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Man Up to Cancer 2025 Gathering of Wolves: The Brotherhood I Never Expected to Find emz.ee/42L9w05
Man Up to Cancer 2025 Gathering of Wolves: The Brotherhood I Never Expected to Find
Thirty years after a neurologist told me I might not make it to graduation, I found myself in the woods of Pennsylvania with 130 men who also lived through cancer.
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US Healthcare is a horror show. Premiums up 18 percent. Subsidies vanish. Families forced to earn less just to stay insured. @danweissmann.bsky.social Arm and a Leg lays it out like no one else. thematthewzachary.substack.com/p/arms-and-l... #HealthCare #ACA #PatientRights #ArmAndALeg
Arms and Legs and Podcasts, oh my!
Dan Weissmann is the Ferris Bueller of healthcare journalism.
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This scary calculator is SUPER relevant to anybody looking at Obamacare for 2026 ... and plays a big role in @armandalegshow.bsky.social's brand-new episode. It's personal — and full of info that you, or someone you care about, probably need too. armandalegshow.com/episode/insu...
Will we be able to afford insurance in 2026? • An Arm And a Leg
An Arm and a Leg's senior producer has to sign up for Obamacare. And it turns out, it’s one heck of a year to do that. An Arm and a Leg's senior producer has to sign up for Obamacare. And it turns out...
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KFF@kff.org · 11mo agoHow much more would people pay if the ACA Marketplace’s enhanced tax credits expire at the end of this year, as expected? Our calculator shows how enrollees’ premiums for 2026 would increase based on zip code, their income, age, and family size: https://on.kff.org/4fX4Fxc
For the last six months, my colleagues and I have been compiling our best "playbook" for dealing with the awful price of meds — with suggestions from dozens of listeners and readers. Now, we've published the results — five newsletter posts, two podcast episodes, and more: armandalegshow.com/drugs/
Some real holy-crap numbers here. We spend 80% more than the avg for Western Europe/Japan/Australia … and see our doctors HALF as often.
Larry Levitt@larrylevitt.bsky.social · 11mo agoWe in the U.S. use less care than in other countries, but pay more. www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collec...
I’m emceeing the ABTA BT5K in NYC this fall. From 21-year-old brain cancer patient to 30-year survivor, this one hits home. Read the story on Substack: emz.ee/3VxleaF #BrainTumorAwareness #ABTA #BT5K #CancerSurvivor
RFK Jr. is gutting the CDC like a frat house prank gone national. Public health is not supposed to be a circus. Patients will pay with their lives while politics plays pretend. Read my full take: emz.ee/4p3niov #PublicHealth
CDC 911
Nine former CDC directors from both parties took the unusual step of writing a joint essay in the New York Times warning that Robert F.
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