Mark Cuban
@mcuban
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Dunking on the pharma industry with @costplusdrugs.com, the lowest prices on meds anywhere. check it out !
Joined September 2008
Just found the old list of patents out IP lawyers for Broadcast com were going to file but never got around to under Yahoo. Not saying they all would have been granted, but if you ever need prior art in this area, here you go lol. Potential https://t.co/VGxQbIXQEJ Patent
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"Government hospitals account for 80% of all hospital beds in Singapore while the private sector accounts for 20%. " #DOGMA
That’s one reason Singapore’s cash-pay markets are so vibrant. Access is excellent b/c prices stay low under fierce competition. Singapore also draws many medical tourists, paying cash obviously. Free markets work, always.
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Except , this is taxpayer money. Not a social experiment. What is the actuarial value of someone that gets $1k per month ? If they adhere to HSA rules, and the recipient is making less than the standard deduction for the fed taxes, so all they would pay is a 20 pct penalty.
@mcuban @DrDiGiorgio Because patient choice = the best driver of increased quality and lower costs we have. Patients' choices with their HSAs represent information. The collective information that we can collect by having patients choose will always outcompete a central-planning based system.
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I’m all for federally offered or narrowly defined catastrophic 3rd party insurance. The taxpayer is the payer of last resort anyway. We need to simplify it and make the numbers work. I would love to know the math of a federal program of catastrophic insurance
@mcuban @DrDiGiorgio People cannot create a catastrophic plan entirely on their own. The whole point is that a catastrophe would wipe them out without ins. Congress banned the exact type of affordable, catastrophic coverage people would need in this scenario. Singapore allows this type of plan.
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Hard to believe Cooper Flagg is only 18. You can see him learning in real time, taking his lumps and so forth — going through the natural evolution process — but he also shows you at least one electric moment per game that makes you double-take and dream about his ultimate
Cooper Flagg: 35 points with no made 3s last night. Flagg has made only 25.3% of 3s this season. Last year at Duke, he made only 24.4% before he turned 18 on Dec 21st. Then 44.7% after that. If his rookie year follows the same trend, he’s about to explode.
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Many, if not most of the cell and gene therapies are lazered out of plans. You aren't seeing those prices fall. You are seeing some of the companies that released them have to be acquired What is happening is everyone is looking at new payment models, including coming from
Imagine the price if those drugs weren’t covered by insurance: Free markets are unforgiving to low-value products, but central planning is gameable.
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We are near the end of 2025 and still you have the moments where your defense does it's job only for Klay Thompson to break loose late and hit a 3.
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Cooper Flagg in the past 48 hours — Youngest ever to record a 35 PT game — Youngest ever to record a 10 AST game Generational.
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Cooper Flagg: 35 points with no made 3s last night. Flagg has made only 25.3% of 3s this season. Last year at Duke, he made only 24.4% before he turned 18 on Dec 21st. Then 44.7% after that. If his rookie year follows the same trend, he’s about to explode.
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Dwight Powell has six steals, the most in a game by a center in Mavs franchise history. (per @Stathead)
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Youngest player in @nba history to score 30+ points in a regulation-length game? Cooper Flagg. Winning Play of the Game presented by @ChoctawCasinos #MFFL
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This has nothing to do with Ant. It was the fact that @NBAOfficial s chose not to make an easy call. That's the issue. It's not Adam Silver telling them what to call or not. They just decide themselves. I brought it up to the head of officials when we played the twolves
Anthony Edwards on eliminating the step on his free throw (spoiler it’s Mark Cuban’s fault) “Some famous guy went on Instagram or went on a podcast and was talking about my free throws and he brought it to the attention of everybody so I had to change it” On changing a free
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Who is your insurance carrier and PBM and why ?
@mcuban It's what they have always done... after lobbying the government to make it happen. By setting laws that keep people from competing with them (even people with the money and power to do so, like yourself), they can raise prices without fear of retribution. If the government
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@mcuban Man’s basically saying the whole system is a rigged table until transparency and real competition enter the chat. No clean market, no “healthcare is a right” talk that actually works. And he’s not wrong about one thing: If the refs (DOJ/FTC + lawmakers) don’t step in, these
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And as far as “ healthcare is a right “. Once we have an efficient market - we don’t today, because just a few insurance carriers dominate and define the economics of healthcare , and we make it transparent, for anything and everything, then we will be in a position where there
"Underpay" I know you are not this ignorant, @mcuban. The US OVERPAYS at every level in healthcare, which is a key reason we overtreat, which is a key reason our outcomes stink. We do NOT need to spend more money on medicine in the US, we would be better off spending less.
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Alex, the US taxpayer rarely pays doctors directly. They typically send money to states (Medicaid) Hospitals and Providers(traditional Medicare), to insurance carriers (MA and ACA), and indirectly through tax savings for individuals and employers ) You are right that we
"Underpay" I know you are not this ignorant, @mcuban. The US OVERPAYS at every level in healthcare, which is a key reason we overtreat, which is a key reason our outcomes stink. We do NOT need to spend more money on medicine in the US, we would be better off spending less.
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