Mark Cuban Has a Plan to Fix Health Care

Mark Cuban Has a Plan to Fix Health Care Most people know Mark Cuban as a Shark Tank investor or longtime owner of the Dallas Mavericks. But a few years ago, he started Cost Plus Drugs to cut out the middleman in a pharmaceutical industry he says is fundamentally broken. Cuban wants healthcare for everyone—even if he doesn't think Medicare for All is the answer. He argues that transparency is the missing ingredient, and lays out what he thinks it would actually take to build a universal healthcare system that works. Sarah McCammon speaks with Cuban about healthcare reform, AI, wealth inequality, the future of the Democratic Party, and why he believes politicians need to spend less time talking and more time solving people's everyday problems. IN THIS EPISODE 00:00 — Cold open 1:14 — Why Cost Plus Drugs exists 4:54 — The transparency problem 9:13 — Universal healthcare vs. Medicare for All 16:10 — Billionaires and inequality 23:29 — Democrats, DSA, and social media 28:52 — AI and the future of work 38:08 — Advice for the next Democratic nominee Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.