The American Healthcare Listening Tour

The American Healthcare Listening Tour is the first structured national effort to go where patients actually live, hear what they actually think, and organize what comes back by congressional district.

This is not a conference. It is not a book tour. It is not a patient advocacy campaign.

It is a civic research project designed to find out whether American patients recognize themselves as a single constituency — and what happens when they do.

Starting in early 2027, the tour will visit twenty to thirty American cities. At every stop, patients and caregivers share their experiences with the healthcare system through the American Healthcare Patient Listening Poll, the only instrument in America that asks patients how they would vote if a politician stood in the way of protecting them, attributed to the congressional district they live in.

Where donations go

Every dollar funds the infrastructure that makes the tour possible: market coordination, event production, polling administration, data collection, and the verified respondent database that turns poll responses into organized constituents who can be contacted and mobilized by district.

No funds will be spent until the campaign goal is reached.

Why it matters

Political scientists have documented that roughly 3.5 percent of a population, organized around a single issue and actively participating, is the threshold at which elected officials can no longer afford to ignore them. A congressional district covers roughly 750,000 people. That threshold is approximately 26,000 organized constituents per district.

The patient community already has the numbers. It has never had the infrastructure.

This tour builds it.

All donations are tax-deductible through Entertainment 2 Affect Change (E2AC), a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Matthew Zachary Worldwide serves as the producing entity under fiscal sponsorship.