PATIENT PROTECTOR – RECALIBRATING HEALTH CARE THROUGH TRUTH, TRANSPARENCY, AND ADVOCACY
Born from tragedy and driven by truth, Patient Protector is a grassroots movement to expose and reform the abuses of Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) and rebuild trust in American health care.
BIL SCHMIDTKNECHT
A Father’s Promise
Bil lost his son, Cole, to PBM formulary manipulation that made his life-saving asthma inhaler unaffordable. Cole suffered a severe asthma attack, cardiac arrest, and irreversible brain damage, forcing his parents to make the unthinkable decision days later.
The same insurance that failed Cole nearly failed Bil, who also suffers from asthma. Only the persistence of a local hometown pharmacist, who absorbed financial loss to help Bil prevented another tragedy. That pharmacist connected Bil and his wife, Shanon, with Dan Strause, beginning a mission that would change lives.
DANIEL G. STRAUSE
The Auditor for Patients
Dan, a former public accountant, spent years performing audits to protect the public interest by verifying not only numbers but the truth behind them. For over 22 years, he’s partnered with independent pharmacies, witnessing firsthand how PBMs manipulate prices, mislead employers, and hurt patients.
After meeting Bil and Shanon, Dan saw how one family’s tragedy embodied a national crisis and realized his auditor’s skills were urgently needed in a broken health care system.
The Turning Point
That meeting between a grieving family and an auditor ignited a movement.
Together, they decided to expose what PBMs truly do and how to stop it.
Dan’s daughter, Mary Strause, a Los Angeles-trained filmmaker, joined the mission. With her storytelling expertise and a network of national experts, the vision for a documentary quickly grew into a docuseries:
Modern Medical Mafia revealing how a handful of powerful corporations have turned health care into a trillion-dollar profit engine at the expense of patients, employers, and communities.
Modern Medical Mafia – A Public Audit of Health Care
The first episode answered three critical questions:
1. Would it be good enough to reach a major platform?
✅ Yes. Amazon Prime picked it up immediately.
2. How would Big PBMs respond?
⚠️ They censored it. Within days of Bil and Dan testifying at a Wisconsin Senate PBM reform hearing, Amazon removed the episode.
Soon after, The New York Times published a front-page story:
“UnitedHealth’s Campaign to Quiet Critics” – confirming UnitedHealth pressured Amazon to take it down.
3. Would the public care?
🌎 Yes. When uploaded to YouTube, it reached 40,000+ organic views with no promotion — only shares from families, pharmacists, and advocates who saw the truth.
THE PATH FORWARD
As the Mission Continues
Future episodes that are being developed currently will dive deeper into hidden profit schemes, legislative loopholes, and the human cost of PBM abuse. These will also showcase real solutions already working in parts of America.
Because censorship and suppression are real threats, we’re building independent platforms you can rely on:
ModernMedicalMafia.com and PatientProtector.us
These sites offer:
• Free Access Channels pack with content for the public to learn from and stay informed with current info
• In-Depth Content for those ready to dig deeper and push reform forward
• Actionable Resources for employers, pharmacies, and advocates including tools, guidance, and next steps
Join us. Strengthen the movement. Help protect patient rights and the future of healthcare in America.
OUR ASKS
1️⃣ Subscribe, Like, and Share.
• The most powerful way to protect truth is to spread it.
• Our goal: 1 million subscribers! This makes enough public strength to make censorship impossible.
2️⃣ Support Future Episodes.
• We’ve already filmed 96 hours of content. Editing and distributing it takes time, skill, and resources.
• Your donations and sponsorships directly fund public education — not corporate profit.
Join us in bringing more episodes of Modern Medical Mafia to life!
OUR PROMISE
This mission honors Cole and every patient who has suffered from a broken system.
We believe auditing and truth-telling can help recalibrate health care — so families, employers, and communities can once again trust the system meant to heal them.
Together - We can fix this.
Patient Protector – Protecting Patients, Recalibrating Health Care.
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