[where's_the_Outrage?]

Notice there's no mentioned of forced government extensive reporting, mandated healthcare, uninsured healthcare expense, illegal immigrants, lawfare, and malpractice insurance.

[ridesthemiles]

IS CUBAN helping or hindering MUSK???

[Mr. K]

its BECAUSE of government regulation

[Governor Dinwiddie]

In short, the healthcare system is a scam run by racketeers. Everybody has his hand out for a piece of the pie.

[dadfly]

that’s easy: because it’s gov’t run (not market run), and illegals and welfare queens and kings feed with impunity at the trough.

[enumerated]

I can’t tell whether it’s the author or Cuban who is completely inarticulate.

[suasponte137]

The only thing that ever comes out of Mark Cuban’s mouth is self owns and stupidity, so I know this article isn’t gonna be inaccurate

[buwaya]

I have been asking this question, in detail, here on FR for 20 years. Its one of the largest US financial problems in every sense.

But I am not Musk. Its amazing that so many people have argued bitterly about how to pay for medical care, but very few have bothered with why its so expensive, which is the root of the problem.

[Secret Agent Man]

Illegals

Kickbacks

Grifting

Billing for things never used/administered

Higher prices for people with insurance

Running up bills with unnecessary charges

CEOs huge salaries

[heylady]

I did the ordering for my department for many years. We could only use certain vendors. If I went to Best Buy for office supplies it would be 1/10th of the cost than ordering from the hospital approved vendors.

[Jan_Sobieski]

One Word: Obamacare

Competition drives prices down, quality up

[RKV]

We might consider increasing the number of doctors and nurses, etc. Right now the feds pay for most residencies for doctors (I know this because my daughter is an MD).

[Fuzz]

‘ Notice there’s no mentioned of forced government extensive reporting, mandated healthcare, uninsured healthcare expense, illegal immigrants, lawfare, and malpractice insurance.’

All industrialized countries face the same problems.

[MNJohnnie]

And you can thank Mark Cuban and the Alt Leftist Democrat party who rammed thur Obamacare for all of it.

[abigkahuna]

“And for those reasons—I am not going to invest”....Said Cuban, maybe....

[sauropod]

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[E. Pluribus Unum]

Health care costs have increased from 5% of GDP in 1970 to nearly 20% in 2023, which mirrors the increase in health care administrators per physician.

[small farm girl]

Now paying $2700 plus a month, with a 10k deductible....thanks mittens and 0.

[madison10]

I thought the blame was on the medical “industry” and its sister, health “insurance.”

[madison10]

I thought the blame was on the medical “industry” and its sister, health “insurance.”

[Wuli]

It starts with the symbiotic relationship of

(1) you not really being the “paying customer”, Medicare and/or the Insurance companies are, so they make/get the “deals” as to prices/costs of diagnostics, outpatient care, inpatient care, drugs, devices, and the rest, and

(2) and you’re just told any “leftover” form all those arrangements.

If you were the primary customer, and your insurance, regardless of how much it would or would not cover had to be accepted by any and all care providers, (NO PPO’s or the the like), and your insurer was barred from making any deals with anyone but you, and costs had to be revealed upfront and publicly listed, then you would be in a position to chose “best care for best price” and “best insurer for best price” (”best” in that context includes what you can afford), as suites your needs and your pocketbook, and then health care providers and insurers would be trying to make deals with you, not each other.