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Mark Cuban
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Reposted by Mark Cuban
Tariffs grind gears; rates whisper. #econsky
Tariffs are like throwing rocks in the economic engine, then asking the Fed to fix the noise by adjusting the radio volume. Interest rates can tune demand, but they can’t magically make a trade war painless.
December 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Almost all of them switched decades ago or longer. Tell me how we are going to move from where we are today , to where you want to go ?

Saying you want it is easy. All I'm asking is how are we going to get there ?

If Bernie's M4A passed under Biden, RFK jr would be running M4A today.
Every other country does it, Mark. It's not some vague thought experiment.

Lots of ways it can be imperfect, of course, but it fundamentally gives everyone access to healthcare without fear of bankruptcy.
December 11, 2025 at 12:24 AM
That's what software has always been, optimize tasks.

Now your boys will have access to every library in the world Everything they are curious about and want to learn, they can find out more from LLMs. As with every generation , they will invent new products, services and who knows what else
I agree with your statement Mark. I use Ai for a lot of menial tasks that used to suck up 5-10 hours a week. But I can't help but think of my 2 boys (15 & 13) and if this is truly the future. So a vast amount of graduates will all essentially do the same job for different companies.
December 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM
One of my shark tank companies shops products all over the world. They ship on different size boxes. Each of which is shipped via a different shipper, w a different price list. They very often, intentionally, mis-price fees. They could only manually go through invoices above a certain amount
@mcuban.bsky.social please define “do Agentic AI” for us.
December 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
For all Universal HC/Single Payer/M4A advocates.

What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ?

Who in the USA gov runs the program?

R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
December 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Time for another review of the REAL #TrumpInflationCrisis. I compared prices on Biden's last day in office versus 12/9/25 prices under Trump's ecomonic "genius". My standard Kroger "cart" is up 10%+. These items are jacked up the most, often accompanied by shrinkflation. Are we winning yet?
December 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Cuban wants us to think he's super smart but continues to say dumb shit like this. He's walking proof rich people are no smarter than the next shitposter.
I hope the Dems realize that if they extend the ACA subsidies, and take no other steps, they are giving carte blanche to the biggest insurance companies and major hospital systems to find new ways to game the system and increase costs.
December 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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December 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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December 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Explain to me what the Dems have done to make healthcare affordable ?

How many people can afford their ACA deductible ? You could make premiums free and they couldn't afford it
This is why this guy below can’t be trusted. He’s blaming the Democrats who tried to make healthcare affordable while Republicans kept trying to destroy any move towards universal healthcare!
I hope the Dems realize that if they extend the ACA subsidies, and take no other steps, they are giving carte blanche to the biggest insurance companies and major hospital systems to find new ways to game the system and increase costs.
December 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Actually the ACA propelled the buying up or the fare system.

And read my timeline
The current (and only) GOP plan is throw everyone off health insurance while allowing private equity to buy up the care system - how is this worse? Where is the criticism that the party in power doesn’t have a solution that doesn’t cause millions of Americans to go broke or go without?
I hope the Dems realize that if they extend the ACA subsidies, and take no other steps, they are giving carte blanche to the biggest insurance companies and major hospital systems to find new ways to game the system and increase costs.
December 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Do you realize how big a business Medicare and Medicaid is for PRIVATE insurance companies ?

That doctors are already quitting because what Medicaid and Medicare pays them is too low and the paper work is an overwhelming time and dollar suck ?
It’s time to end medical insurance companies and move to a single payer system that covers everyone.

Leave it in the hands of the corporations and it’s nothing but a con game to siphon billions a month out of public and private coffers and into the super-yachts of the filthy rich.
I hope the Dems realize that if they extend the ACA subsidies, and take no other steps, they are giving carte blanche to the biggest insurance companies and major hospital systems to find new ways to game the system and increase costs.
December 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I have. To Republicans and Democrats. Republicans are more open to doing it than Dems. Dems are dug in
Did you submit these suggestions to any republican? Without republican support healthcare assistance is going nowhere. They’ve had decades to address and fix the issue- it’s disgustingly clear -they’d rather support a new ballroom
December 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
They can come up with actual solutions. They put a premium on "acting in unison" over finding solutions. Nothing the Dems have said. Not a single word, is a solution to fix or improve health care in the short term Including their M4All proposal.

There are steps that can be taken today.
The Dem’s are not in control Mark. They simply want health care to be affordable. The party in control wants no subsidies. What else can the dems do?

If the house swings back, sure do more. Bring the system to work for the people.
I hope the Dems realize that if they extend the ACA subsidies, and take no other steps, they are giving carte blanche to the biggest insurance companies and major hospital systems to find new ways to game the system and increase costs.
December 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
It's great, but no one talks about how you get from here to there. The biggest hospitals and most expensive specialists won't participate. They will opt out.

It is written so the Sec of HHS will run it. How would that be working right now ?

Other countries switched decades or longer ago.
How do you feel about Universal Health Care, Mark?
I hope the Dems realize that if they extend the ACA subsidies, and take no other steps, they are giving carte blanche to the biggest insurance companies and major hospital systems to find new ways to game the system and increase costs.
December 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
You can extend for a year. In a year, hopefully we have some reform. If not, you can extend another year.

Extending 3 yrs now is going to triple the stock prices of big insurance carriers and hospital networks. They will LOVE IT. Prices will continue to skyrocket
And what happens if ACA credits aren’t extended, Mark? 🙄
I hope the Dems realize that if they extend the ACA subsidies, and take no other steps, they are giving carte blanche to the biggest insurance companies and major hospital systems to find new ways to game the system and increase costs.
December 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It's the fault of the DOJ/ FTC and politicians of both parties, for allowing big insurance companies and hospital systems to become the largest companies in the country, giving them the ability to set pricing and rules for healthcare

They run healthcare. Period end of story
Here's the thing:

They're going to do that regardless. They were doing it before the tax credits!

Healthcare is too expensive but that's not the fault of the ACA subsidies.
I hope the Dems realize that if they extend the ACA subsidies, and take no other steps, they are giving carte blanche to the biggest insurance companies and major hospital systems to find new ways to game the system and increase costs.
December 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Republicans who want payments made to HSAs, you need to provide data on the actuarial value of this approach.
High Deductible plans, with HSA deposits, are useless if the patient can't afford their deductible.

Which is the ultimate problem with no CSR, ACA plans.
December 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
What should be added to the bill for protection:
1. Any cash purchases apply to deductibles
2. Intercompany charges from providers must be at Medicare pricing (end MLR gaming)
3. Drugs must be priced at net during deductible phase
4. Declaration that drug rebates are paid by sickest patients
December 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I hope the Dems realize that if they extend the ACA subsidies, and take no other steps, they are giving carte blanche to the biggest insurance companies and major hospital systems to find new ways to game the system and increase costs.
December 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
In every company there are hundreds of things you can't afford to hire people to do. Tedious, voluminous work that has mistakes that are often expensive. Going forward companies will hire new college grads who can do Agentic AI, which will soon be all of them , to write agents to do these jobs
From Howard Marks’s new piece, “Is It a Bubble?”
December 10, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Is 37 the new 67 ?
Trump at his speech on the economy: "You can give up certain products. You can give up pencils…They only need one or two. They don't need that many…You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. Two or three is nice, but you don't need 37 dolls."
December 10, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Chic hits #1 today in 1978 with “Le Freak”, a song originally titled “F**k Off!” — and written after the band was turned away by the bouncers at Studio 54.

“We go back to my apartment really pissed off,” said Nile Rodgers, “and Bernard starts singing, ‘Ahhh, f**k off!’ .. and that became the hook.”
December 10, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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4. The Marc Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company Effect on Urogynecologic Drugs

Bluesky elder @mcuban.bsky.social's work on generics was analysed by researchers. They concluded the program would have saved $1.29 billion in 2020 Medicare costs.

Extremely positively shared.

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December 3, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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December 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM