The sentence I'd put on the wall of every advocacy office

Nine people heard "that's just how healthcare works." None of them believed it.

Sep 22 • Terry Wilcox

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The Coyote Was Never the Problem

What a shelved cartoon taught me about the medicines we leave unfinished

Sep 5 • Terry Wilcox

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August 2026

Read the label

A policy can carry your name and still not be for you.

Aug 25 • Terry Wilcox

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The Long Goodbye

My stepmother Sandy died last week. This is my most personal story yet, with some policy sprinkled in.

Aug 11 • Terry Wilcox

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July 2026

My mother is in this episode

The world's most common cancer, four lives, and a letter that changed one community's future.

Jul 28 • Terry Wilcox

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The person behind the patient

Season one of the State of the Patient Podcast starts with four people who refused to give up. Here’s what they taught me.

Jul 14 • Terry Wilcox

April 2026

Face the Numbers Before They Face You

Lesson 2: The Real Cost of Being Unprepared

Apr 29 • Terry Wilcox

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Becoming the CEO of Your Own Healthcare Lesson 1: Take Inventory Before You Take Action

Before you fight the system, master what’s already yours. Most patients navigate healthcare blind. CEOs never do.

Apr 23 • Terry Wilcox

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I Lived Alzheimer’s During COVID. Now I See What Policy Gets Wrong.

A story about caregiving, loss, and the decisions families are forced to make long before policy ever catches up.

Apr 15 • Terry Wilcox

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One Traumatized Medicaid Patient, Eight Fake Phone Numbers, and an Algorithm Waiting to Cut Her Off. This Is Where Your Tax Dollars Go.

High mental illness rates in Medicaid + fraud + UnitedHealth algorithms = taxpayer money down the drain instead of actual care.

Apr 13 • Terry Wilcox

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Fake CEO Confession Exposed Hospital Pricing Secrets — And Yes, It Fooled Even Me at First

The story was satire. The pricing system is not.

Apr 8 • Terry Wilcox

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I Paid $3,000 So My Son Could Hear and Aetna Said It Didn’t Count It

What my son’s story reveals about a system that counts costs—but not patients

Apr 7 • Terry Wilcox

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