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This man is a monumental dipshit

I don’t know many lives were saved with ACA including my 60 yr old sister who had no insurance while working full time…so maybe Dems DID DO SOMETHING!🙄

The problem with contemporary healthcare, not limited to the US, is that nobody is sure where healthcare starts or ends We want to live forever, without pain and at 100% function. The demand is infinite, the resources aren't.

But Republicans have had no healthcare plan and have tried 70 times to repeal ACA…so it’s not a “both sides” because Dems had nothing to overturn because republicans have no healthcare plan…🤷🏾‍♀️

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What are you talking about? At what point in recent history have Republicans made any progress on improving the healthcare system??? 😵‍💫

I guess Wikioedia was off when I searched for single-payer healthcare. "Within single-payer healthcare systems, a single government or government-related source pays for all covered healthcare services.[6] Governments use this strategy to achieve several goals, including universal healthcare,

Cuban says: Dems are “not offering any solutions and they’re certainly not saying ‘Break up the big insurance companies, break up the big hospital networks.’ My response is that Cuban can lie that there are no ideas on the left, but the Bulwark should give context that this is a lie.

Clinton's healthcare bill failed in a Democrat controlled Senate. Sanders was in the House at the time. Much like the ACA it was a terrible piece of legislation. Not only did the two bills set back real healthcare solutions both were politically disastrous. Bernie was right then and he is right now.

Sanders did not single-handedly kill Hillarycare. Spare us the BS.

Our society doesn’t have any core value regarding the well being of others. Just a shit-ton of greed and selfishness rolled up in easy to swallow rationalizations and excuses.

I remember a professor at William and mary posing the Heinz Dilemma to us in class in the mid- 90's. We wrote essays and had to discuss aloud in class. It always stuck with me the variety of perspectives on the dilemma.

Hm, I think it was K. Sebelius that said it best in the recent past. You cant look at individual parts of the Healthcare system to solve it. You have to address it holistically. Insurance sure, hospitals sure, big pharma sure, ed/ research sure, preventative sure. Address 1 you are can't fix it.

I was surprised by how much he tip toed around Rs and Trump. I used to think more of him.

I haven't looked at what he's saying/offering, but I'll bet whatever it entails is still based on a for-profit layout. That is what needs to be taken out entirely. Healthcare should be on the same standing AND funding as the military. R's want that strong military? Fine, make every citizen healthy.

For profit healthcare was never meant to work for us. Transcript of taped conversation between President Richard Nixon and John D. Ehrlichman (1971) that led to the HMO act of 1973 ⬇️

Oh the Dems understand this; but those big insurance companies are some of their donors. They also have big influencers in DC that will prevent Dems from breaking them up …

Still waiting for Gops solution.

Yeah, I’m gonna listen to the billionaire who doesn’t know about a referral or that the rich already get preferential treatment. Cuban is a fucking clown. bsky.app/profile/mcub...

More thoughts from this genius. “Give rich people tax cuts. That’ll work.” Fuck Mark Cuban. bsky.app/profile/mcub...

Breaking up the insurance companies and the hospital networks is a good start. The biggest problem, though, is profit. You simply can't have for profit healthcare because profit will always be the guiding factor.

How about big media?

Why does anyone still listen to that fucking asshole?

Mark shows that he is no different than the rest of the grifting billionaires! The Democrats have tried many times to address this issue without help from the other side. Insurance is a mute point when you have no democracy or country! Wake the hell up, Mark!

And the Republicans have a viable plan, Mark??

Also, we hold the wrong ppl up in society. He's not even the right person to ask. He's just rich. He will never even need insurance. Why does he get attention? Because he does the pseudo-philanthropic activity of making "less" profit off of our misery. Its basically an abusive relationship.

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Lol. Dems dont offer any solutions that keep making him profit. There, fixed it for ya.

Fuck all the way off cuban you dumbass.

“Rick Scott wants to do something” - you mean get in at design phase so he can make sure he still has a money pipeline? Why would we trust people who dont feel the pain to solve any of the problems their political donations have caused?

Universal Healthcare is the only hope. The wealthy can still have their private hospitals and doctors- like they do in Europe

Too many corporate Dems- I am looking at you Jeffries

Trust this bag to your peril.

Because the lobbying is massive. Go back to 2009 and study what they wanted with single payer. It couldn’t happen. The compromise was ACA because the insurance industry is too big . It needs to be dismantled

Crazy that all it takes is a comment section that doesn’t stroke his ego and he goes and fellates the other side, thin skinned lil bitch…

#UniversalHealthcare #MedicaidForAll

If Mark Cuban actually wants to do antitrust, that's cool. Health insurance is a weird place to start, though.

True. Democrats are relying on UHC as a panacea for all healthcare problems and its not.

The only thing that makes sense is universal healthcare, as many other countries have successfully done. We deserve nice things, why are so many people so gullable to believe it's bad when there is proof out there that it works well? Stop believing the con jobs of the rich! Stop feeding the rich!

Mark Cuban has always been a #RepublicanPOS. He doesn't change. He just re-wraps his package.

Wow, so the billionaire has the knowledge to fix our healthcare system. Once again, billionaires do not have some special sauce that makes them capable of solving problems. Please, look outside your bubble and try real experts.

Fixing health care is easy. Nationalize the insurance agencies thus becoming a "Single Payer" and dictating the costs of medications, services, etc. Meanwhile, individual or employer plans will convert to taxes.

Enough of these celebrity billionaires telling us what to do or how to solve issues in this country.

But then, "Never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity." is the Dems' MO.

The republicans are the majority party and he is blaming the democrats.

He’s blaming the democrats? Really?

In Canada we love our Health Care system

In Canada there are still insurance companies. They handle things like dental, physiotherapy, vision care prescriptions, Long term disability etc. it's not a perfect system but people don't go broke from getting cancer. Likely the US insurance companies would have their service limited to similar

"Shitty" Healthcare is better than no Healthcare.

Sometimes I think the DEMs are too afraid to take on "big" corporations, businesses like insurance, banks, etc. Unless you have a president not afraid to tackle some of those issues like fraud in banking, pharma pricing, questionable contracts with big corporations, media conglomerates, etc.

Big business and health care don’t mix. Big business and government should not mix.

Agree that Dems need to articulate what they will do!! Time for new vision, big thinking

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One of many reasons I stopped following Cuban. He's nothing but a bad salesman pushing his failing prescription business on us.

@mcuban.bsky.social Get the gang together Mark...our health care system is breaking us(US). If you can fix it, please, please do.

Insurance is, by definition, a FOR PROFIT industry. Insurance companies are the last bastion of organized crime: "That's a nice limbic system/heart/lungs/etc. ya got there. Be a shame if something happened to it."

Hospitals and healthcare in general have to be nonprofit – health insurance companies have to disappear altogether! #UniversalHealthcare #MedicaidForAll

Cuban doesn't care about healthcare. He left Bluesky because everytime he brought it up people would point him to research giving him the answers to questions he was asking, but he would ignore. Why? Because they weren't the answers he wanted. He's a fraud on this topic like so many others.

We don’t need lectures from narcissistic oligarchs. We only need to look at models in MANY other countries and choose what will work for US!

Break up all the big companies. Merger and acquisitions are a plague on everyone but the oligarchs. The antitrust laws are still on the books if someone would bother to blow the dust and cobwebs off of them.

Keep in mind that the GOP just decreased the Medicare Medicaid reimbursement fee schedule again....

Just like Trump, the me, me me man. All about the money!!!

He also said the ACA had good intentions but it got chipped away at until it was no longer the ACA (i.e., elimination of the individual mandate). He’s right, but he failed to point out the elephant in the room; it was the republicans doing the chipping. They are NOT trying.

That quote was about the democrat efforts, the next question was, “what about the republicans?” And his answer was, “They’re trying.” He did go on to talk about 2 of them, but it was a far more forgiving response. I appreciate what he’s doing, but come on.

The two Republicans are also billionaires. One a crackpot and the other a fraudster.

yeah... "Republicans are trying" is a fvcking joke.....

That seems like it largely depends on which democrats he's talking about. Kudos for taking the "outsider populist" tack to sell more of your shit, but we're done with rich assholes. It's already the gilded age, and you let it happen, at best. Too late. The populace is pissed.

Like most people who dabble in healthcare without actually living it, Cuban has a barely rudimentary understanding of the many, many problems in our utterly broken system. His ideas are like “fixing” a totaled car by putting new tires on it.

He’s most definitely wrong. Republicans own all 3 branches yet he’s chastising Democrats. You are part of the problem.

Point(s) taken.

The ACA was a start; Dems will get there bc people are coming around now, while the Rs are hellbent on repeal with no plan.

I have no quarrel with your statement, but with Trump controlling all branches of government any Dem plan would be DOA. The politically prudent course may be to hold fire until election campaign time. Not give the GOP additional time to propagandize against Dem proposals. I like this advice:

Headlines to criticize Dems when they hold no power?!? What’s your point?

The Democrats have to put a Government to put back together first.

Has Cuban not seen the proposals for single payer universal health care Democrats have been proposing since FDR? That *IS* the proposal that would break up those insurance companies and hospital networks.

THANK YOU

Yup! So those against universal health care appear to be practicing anti-business ideologies! Bam.

Dems warned of GOP policies causing rural hospitals to close and doctors would leave States that disallowed them from practicing best available medicine they trained to provide. Cuban thinks Dems with no power are responsible for coming up a 100% new national plan instead of restoring subsidies?

Democrats are 100% in Corporate Americas pocket. Their hate of progressives keeps them from seeing that Nazi America is not better that a Progressive America.

30+years of insurance experience & I can say unequivocally-Cuban’s head is all the way up his ass…

Because what we need in 2026 is to trust billionaires (this might be an actual quote from a billionaire).

He's either a naive fool or a liar. The GOP has ZERO interest in fixing U.S. healthcare because they directly benefit (disproportionately) from it being an expensive mess through political donations. Plus to deliver affordable healthcare you need subsidisation of the poor. Which the GOP detest.

I’ve been saying we need to fix current Medicare & make it more like Medicaid where everything is covered & offer it as a public option where cost is based on income. That would give us a nonprofit low cost competition to for profit health insurance companies & force them to lower their rates.

And why do we believe him. Nothing in his private or public profile indicates he’s anything other than another huckster billionaire. LMK when he helps with ppls medical debt instead of reestablishing the same middleman insurance we already have under another name. Insurance companies have to go.

I'm starting to hate Mark Cuban. He suffers from the same ego problem Trump has: he thinks he knows everything.

Let’s face it the problem is not lack of action from dems, it’s the LOBBYING money in the industry! First end Citizens United, then no party gets political campaign funds, THEN we can work on universal health care after no one making decisions can get any payoffs.

The Dems don't want to break up those big insurance companies. They're some of their biggest donors.

He is not wrong.

Why always the Democrats, so tired of this same bs when the country is in dire straights yet they find something on democrats they don't like. So much to talk about on the Republican whiner party, yet it's the democrats.

as always, follow the money.

I can't see myself getting behind some rich businessman. We have done that experiment and the result has been catastrophic.

Much as I agree with some of what Mark Cuban says, do you have to give one more rich person a forum to let all us poor folk know how stupid we all are. Give me a fucking break in 2026.

Cuban is just another billionaire giving his unsolicited opinion on the state of the Democratic party. Maybe with all of his billions, he could send a check to every senior citizen who is living on a fixed income- that would be very helpful, his opinions are not.

REMINDER - Dems lost Congress in 2010 due to passage of the ACA. This is such terrible framing of the issues.

Things are exactly the way the oligarchs want them to be.

Easier said then done. Remember that Democrats are fighting the many years of republican propaganda, messaging that Universal Healthcare is socialism. For some reason many reasonably intelligent Americans have bought into this garbage. This needs to be done more delicately.

Oh great - another billionaire we assume as all the fucking answers.

Ah yes, this conceited billionaire will save us.

Nor have they said tax the rich individuals and corporations to at least reduce the federal personal income taxes for the working class and to support public assistance programs.

mark cuban tells us that he's suffering from godemperor syndrome just like all the other billionaire pests

Make healthcare non profit again

Democrats know there's limited time for legislating. We have an agenda which hits other high spots -- like wealth disparity, election security with mail-in ballots included, banking reforms, tax reform, continuing help to Ukraine, and many other things. Has the Senate filibuster been ended yet?

Hot air. Because Dems don't say what Cuban thinks they should.....Dems don't have to come out with solutions right now. Republicans control everything. Why isn't he critical of Republicans not saying this. We know why. Money. Money and power. That group includes Cuban.

Dude thinks Sen. Rick Scott - he if the biggest Medicare fraud ever - has good ideas about health reform. That the Bulwark left that unchallenged is pretty weak actually.

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