Matthew Zachary is the healthcare policy love child of Jon Stewart, Howard Stern, Thomas Paine, Ralph Nader, and Jerry Seinfeld. He has 19 years of receipts to prove it.
Editorially independent. Answerable to no one.
What started as The Stupid Cancer Show in 2007 became Out of Patients. The first online health podcast in America, predating the medium itself. Zachary survived brain cancer at 21, built the young adult cancer movement from scratch, and spent two decades channeling patient rage into something the system never saw coming.
Now he is marching into Washington.
Out of Patients goes where the comfortable shows will not. Politics. Healthcare policy. Economics. Institutional accountability. Consumer protection. The forces shaping what 330 million Americans can access, afford, and survive. Battle-scarred patients. Exhausted caregivers. Rare insiders brave enough to name what is killing us. And the occasional elected official about to find out what an organized patient constituency actually looks like.
This is the show that started the conversation America is still not ready to finish.
Jen Horonjeff is a chronic illness patient by birth, a PhD by training, and an entrepreneur by necessity. She was named one of Entrepreneur Magazine's 50 Most Daring Entrepreneurs of 2018 for her work as Founder and CEO of Savvy Cooperative, the first patient-owned public benefit co-op. Rooted in science, but driven by creativity and user-centered design, she believes that giving patients ownership in what they help create is not only the right thing to do, it benefits everyone. Her passion is to improve the patient experience, and to provide more patient engagement opportunities to industry that raises all ships.
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