Mark Cuban discusses changing his perspective on Section 230 and social media speech regulation after debates with First Amendment lawyers.
Opinion
Cuban opposes Medicare for All in favor of a hybrid healthcare model
“I'm not a huge fan of Medicare for all or single payer simply because there's a variety of issues. I'm more a fan of a hybrid system where lower income people get single payer and higher income people like me pay for what they use.”
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Cuban: Hospitals lie about losing eight to nine percent on Medicare
“It's a shit show. You know, you don't need, you know, all these, building all these new buildings and buying all this real estate, and there's no, you know, lying about your cost to do something. Oh, our Medicare, you know, we provide Medicare. We lose eight, …”
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Cuban: Post-pandemic period will be the best time to start a business
“And going forward over whatever period of time it takes for us to get to the other side, it'll be the best time in the history of mankind to ever start a business because there are no rules.”
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Cuban refuses to invest in venture-backed companies that buy market share
“The type of investments I won't do or don't do is ones where companies buy sales. So this is going to be a company that has to raise five hundred million to do one hundred million in sales because they want to own market share. And then they can get an exit be…”
What-if
Cuban claims Uber and Twitter would be more successful outside Silicon Valley
“I think if you take some of the companies, Twitter, or almost any of them, Uber in particular, Lyft, and you move those to Kansas City, Dallas, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, New York, they would have been so much more successful, so much more quickly.”
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Cuban: Cost Plus Drugs prices beat market rates 99% of time
“And just the way the industry is set up, that price, not always, but 99% of the time ends up being lower than what you're probably already paying. And most likely, It's lower than your insurance copay.”