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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Medicare comes up on All-In, the a16z Podcast, TBPN, Top Founders, Acquired
Why the World Order Is Collapsing and American Power Is Rising
- ▶ 1:22:35 Walter Russell Mead I think this means that things like the federal deficit due to entitlement programs are actually solvable, that we're going to have Medicare is going to be
How He Bootstrapped Dental Software to $16m
- ▶ 8:37 Rohit Garg So they come in Medicare, Medicaid, right?
The Fight Over Open Source AI, Anthropic's $1.5B Payout, NYC Socialists: Evictions = Violence?
- ▶ 49:32 Jason Calacanis New York Times, Medicare.
We Built Our Own Salesforce in Months. Here's Why We're Cancelling the $600K Contract | Curative CEO
- ▶ 1:10:50 Fred Turner That's all now backfired and all the government business, Medicare and Medicaid is now like a bad business and they're all losing money.
Coinbase Cuts AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40B Valuation & Impending IPO | The Year for SaaS Roll-Ups · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:57 Jason Lemkin And governments do support oligopolies all the time when it's, when, and they, they, and the class, the number one example in ECK is medical device companies and Medicare, right?
Why AI Labs With Unlimited GPUs Still Fail — Anjney Midha, AMP
- ▶ 18:05 Anjney Midha The, like, over 30% of all Medicare, Medicaid spend, at least at that time, was spent on end-of-life care. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:49 Shawn Wang Which is wasting, wasting GPUs, wasting in, in human and in Medicare.
Dan Dreyfus: The Next AI Bottleneck is Copper
- ▶ 12:31 Dan Dreyfus So Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, pensions.
The Five Year Desert to Product Market Fit & a $5.3BN Valuation with Shiv Rao, Founder @ Abridge · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
OpenAI Misses Targets, Codex vs Claude, Elon vs Sam Trial, Big Hyperscaler Beats, Peptide Craze
- ▶ 1:03:44 David Friedberg I think it's like 50 bucks on Medicare. 2 times in the scene
Steph Smith: “This opportunity is totally overlooked”
- ▶ 6:53 Steph Smith It's like, I think Medicare spends over fifty billion dollars annually on dialysis and other related treatments, which is just wild.
How Bots, Deepfakes and AI Agents Are Forcing a New Internet Identity Layer | Alex Blania on a16z
- ▶ 35:15 Ben Horowitz Uh, just cause like how lossy is and fraudulent is social security or Medicare or any of these things. 2 times in the scene
FULL INTERVIEW: Mark Cuban on Robots, AI, Self-Driving, and Advice to Students
- ▶ 21:47 Mark Cuban I want it as a reference price of Medicare, about a hundred to a hundred percent of Medicare, unless it's really complicated. 2 times in the scene
Chasing Wealth, Neglecting Health — The Real Consequences.
- ▶ 1:11 Dr. Jonas Kuno So I started at the, at the very old spectrum, kind of fell into that and, uh, managed, it was also Medicare patients, elderly people. 4 times in the scene
Jonathan Lewinsohn – Credit Microcycles at Diameter (EP.484)
- ▶ 48:25 Jonathan Lewinsohn If there's a mix of commercial Medicare and Medicaid, we like larger businesses.
Dr. Mehmet Oz on Fixing American Healthcare + Fraud | Live from Davos
- ▶ 9:17 Dr. Mehmet Oz Which gets them closer to Medicare, by the way, also helps deal with other financial crises that we're facing as a nation.
- ▶ 18:54 Dr. Mehmet Oz The chance of a Medicaid patient who doesn't pay for their health care because they don't have the means to do it, the chance of them canceling their doctor's appointment is twice that of a Medicare patient. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:02 Dr. Mehmet Oz Every Medicare patient gets it for 50 dollar copay. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:05 Dr. Mehmet Oz And if you get, you steal five million dollars, uh, in medic, in Medicare, Medicaid, you go to jail for 18 months.
- ▶ 48:33 Dr. Mehmet Oz You know, all you need to penetrate Medicare and Medicaid is a beneficiary number.
- ▶ 54:46 Dr. Mehmet Oz If you're on Medicare, you don't get free dental, you don't get free vision.
Supercharging a New FDA: Marty Makary on Science, Power & Patients
- ▶ 26:19 Dr. Marty Makary So we do have a responsibility, and we do, we, we have to be good stewards of the Medicare program.
Howard Lutnick: How America Can Hit 6% GDP Growth in 2026
- ▶ 48:54 Howard Lutnick So, the result is Ozempic and Munjara are on Medicaid and Medicare. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:38 Howard Lutnick No one has ever looked at, if you're getting Medicaid and Medicare, how much money do you make?
These Jobs Will Skyrocket in the AI Economy · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 12:21 Joe Lonsdale And a lot more than that, if you count Medicare and Medicaid, let's be honest, like what's coming, you know. 2 times in the scene
#2286 Pepper: AI + people = > $10 million
- ▶ 11:22 Anirudh Singla Now, if you go down further, if you see this, compare Medicare supplement plan costs. 3 times in the scene
Home Affordability Crisis, Palantir's Advantage, Big Short on AI, H-1B Abuse, Solar Storm Hits Earth
- ▶ 28:26 David Friedberg And much like we've seen in many other markets, like education with student loans, or like healthcare with Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, and so on, when the government gets involved and provides capital to, quote, support a market and…
The Brutal Truth About Biotech: Why $2B Per Drug Is Killing Innovation
- ▶ 34:49 Lada Nuzhna Yeah, I think unfortunately the incentive to develop aging drugs is still not quite there because if you look at the US payer system, um, the payer that pays the most for, um, diseases of aged population is Medicare, um, which kicks in… 2 times in the scene
Dave Ricks, CEO of Eli Lilly, on GLP-1s and the business of pharma
- ▶ 34:26 Dave Ricks 9065, Medicare and Medicaid were invented.
Pete Buttigieg: The Left's Identity Crisis, Wealth Tax, 2024 Mistakes, Plans for 2028
- ▶ 29:36 Pete Buttigieg There are measures that we got to take to reduce things like the cost of providing healthcare, which is one of the biggest, uh, uh, sources of pressure on Medicare, Medicaid, you name it.
1929 vs 2025: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Crashes, Bubbles & Lessons Learned
- ▶ 42:26 David Sacks We're going to give you access to health care, and then Medicare became kind of this ballooning spending line, because in every case, because it's not actually a free market, the government doing the spending gets taken advantage of, and…
Ro Khanna Calls Out Both Parties: Immigration, Tech & Free Speech
Taking Bold Bets: NIH and the Future of Biomedical Science
- ▶ 4:07 Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Um, and there'll be also, uh, you know, changes in, in, uh, uh, like how Medicare pays, Medicare, CMS, Medicare, and Medicaid pay for, uh, Leucovorin.
Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
- ▶ 14:01 Mark Cuban I got no problem with that because you're paying for it one way or the other, you know, through Medicare and Medicaid some way.
- ▶ 27:26 Mark Cuban Medicare Advantage, they shrink the network, increase networks. 3 times in the scene
Tucker Carlson and Mark Cuban Debate How to Save America 🔥 | All-In Summit 2025
- ▶ 5:40 Mark Cuban And so, there's generic tiers, there's brand tiers, um, but even in Medicare and Medicare Advantage, they created these things called specialty generics.
Senator Rand Paul: Tariffs, Debt, China, and a Warning for America
The CEO Who Cheated Death, Slept an Hour a Night, and Built a Healthcare Empire · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 38:22 Mark Bertolini And, and, and, and so what, what we found was, is that in hospice, end of life, where 60% of your lifetime costs are spent, Medicare rules, and most rules in most insurance companies require you to say, I can no longer seek curative…
OpenAI's GPT-5 Flop, AI's Unlimited Market, China's Big Advantage, Rise in Socialism, Housing Crisis
- ▶ 52:54 Jason Calacanis I'm not sure if we talked about in the group chat, but you had people who were at once upset in Nebraska about the government spending too much, then not the Medicare cuts, Medicaid cuts,
She raised $1.3M, and delivered real, strategic value — then shut it down. | Mary Beth Snodgrass,... · PMF Show
- ▶ 18:06 Mary Beth Snodgrass In our case, what we were doing is we were approaching companies about both fee-for-service and value-based care, um, models, and the reason I say that is in a value-based care like Medicare, um, we, we would be paid, um, based on, you… 3 times in the scene
Revolutionizing Preventive Health: Early Disease Detection and Metabolic Diagnostics with KiHealth
- ▶ 26:15 Kristian Marquez I can make a case either way, but do you find yourself from an insurance perspective, uh, more gravitating, gravitating towards commercial or, or Medicare and Medicaid? 3 times in the scene
Trump vs Powell, Solving the Debt Crisis, The $10T AGI Prize, GENIUS Act Becomes Law
- ▶ 13:17 Gavin Baker You know, it's, it's only a few years before spending on interest is significantly larger than spending on Medicare and Medicaid or Social Security or the military.
Scott Galloway on Billionaire Happiness, Money & Self-Worth | Why We Should Drink More & Not WFH · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:01 Scott Galloway Whereas if you have universal child care or Medicare, it, and you can take a household's average income from 30,000 to 40,000, it's a huge leap in happiness.
We Interviewed the Best Startups From YC Demo Day (June 2025)
- ▶ 12:00 unnamed speaker Last demo day, we talked to a company that was doing, uh, AI voice interactions to help the elderly process Medicare receipts essentially.
Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
- ▶ 2:00:35 John Coogan Last demo day, we talked to a company that was doing, uh, AI voice interactions to help the elderly process Medicare receipts essentially.
Revolutionizing Dysphagia Diagnosis: IMAGExRAY’s Technology is Transforming Healthcare
- ▶ 3:53 Steve DeMarco Medicare reimbursed procedure that exists, uh, in the country.
- ▶ 22:16 Steve DeMarco Medicare. 2 times in the scene
AI Doom vs Boom, EA Cult Returns, BBB Upside, US Steel and Golden Votes
- ▶ 1:06:45 David Friedberg Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and some other income security programs.
Hey Tech, Come to Healthcare
- ▶ 27:13 Daisy Wolf Every employee would demand that their employer offer that health plan in the, you know, when you get to Medicare and you get to choose your plan after you're 65, every, you know, senior citizen would choose that plan and, you know, the…
Senator Ron Johnson on the Senate showdown over Trump's Big Beautiful Bill | All-In Interview
- ▶ 4:37 Senator Ron Johnson Medicare, Medicaid, but we have, I would say, deviously slid all kinds of discretionary spending into other mandatory that really exploded during COVID where I think other mandatory hit well over two trillion dollars. 2 times in the scene
Bond crisis looming? GOP abandons DOGE, Google disrupts Search with AI, OpenAI buys Jony Ive's IO
- ▶ 12:20 Chamath Palihapitiya You're going to increase Medicare prices.
Trump's Big Week: Middle East Trip, China Deal, Pharma EO, "Big, Beautiful Bill" with Ben Shapiro
- ▶ 56:48 Ben Shapiro And unless you're willing to make serious systemic changes to things like Medicare and Medicaid and social security, you're not going to solve any of these problems.
Bridging Care: The Future of Family Caregiving and Health Plans with Avanlee Christine
- ▶ 21:37 Avanlee Christine Yeah, well, because it's interesting with a B to B in Medicare, uh, 2 times in the scene
Investor Details Carvana's Wild Ride From -99% To Market Leader | Cliff Sosin Interview · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 1:47:29 Cliff Sosin So if you're studying Medicare Advantage or Medicaid managed care companies, 2 times in the scene
The Real Cost of Ultra-Processed Food | Calley Means on TBPN
- ▶ 16:53 Calley Means So there was a Medicare ruling from Biden that said that Ozempic should be the frontline defense for anyone who's obese or overweight on Medicare. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:35 Calley Means The problem with the US healthcare system is not that we have the wrong Medicare, Medicaid reimbursement rates, it's the fact that we're the sickest country in the world, and that's actually because we rely too much on the healthcare…
- ▶ 27:00 Calley Means There's a, there's a, in, in this building, in the, in the White House, there's a, there's a shift happening where we are, of course, talking about healthcare policy, like what to do on Medicare and Medicaid, but, but it's more about the… 2 times in the scene
How Tech Can Save America | Delian Asparouhov on TBPN
- ▶ 11:31 Delian Asparouhov How do you get more and more of like, you know, Medicaid and Medicare to yes, use humans when like, you've got some super delicate operation, et cetera. 4 times in the scene
Epic Systems (MyChart) · Acquired
- ▶ 20:51 Ben Gilbert We're gonna catch up to Medicare here, but in 1942, America is at war.
- ▶ 23:41 David Rosenthal And then, of course, that takes us to 1965 and Medicare and Medicaid because the big policy question is now, what do you do about all the people who don't have jobs?
- ▶ 24:04 Ben Gilbert Medicare and Medicaid enter the picture as a part of the Social Security Act.
- ▶ 24:35 Ben Gilbert So the compromise is we will create Medicare for those over 65 and Medicaid if you have a low income or other special situations.
- ▶ 24:44 Ben Gilbert And we can't really fund either exactly right, so we'll sort of figure out how to fund Medicare out of the federal government, and Medicaid, let's make that the state's responsibility.
- ▶ 25:11 Ben Gilbert Medicare or Medicaid if you sort of fall outside those buckets.
- ▶ 25:23 Ben Gilbert Those costs are so laundered through private insurance companies and Medicare and Medicaid that most people think about any given health encounter as being paid for by someone else, by a part of some system.
- ▶ 28:37 David Rosenthal Of that set of payers, Medicare and Medicaid are the big gorillas because they're covering the elderly population who are consuming the vast majority of care and the vast majority of complicated care and expensive care in the country.
- ▶ 28:52 David Rosenthal Here we are in 1966, the year after Medicare, Medicaid get created by the government, and there's this existential reason now for healthcare to adopt systematized records, and so a group, once again, at Massachusetts General Hospital in…
- ▶ 1:01:47 David Rosenthal Kind of similar to Medicare is your most important payer relationship because old people is where the most complex, most expensive care is happening.
- ▶ 1:11:08 David Rosenthal But importantly, they do also need to work with and interface with Medicare as they have their own Medicare Advantage plan, and so for their older patients, customers, once they get older, they transition to Medicare Advantage through…
- ▶ 3:46:51 Ben Gilbert If you don't function correctly, oh, you get your Medicare, Medicaid subsidies crushed for violating, you know, meaningful use stuff.
He raised $300M to prevent heart attacks. Here's how he got his health tech startup off the groun... · PMF Show
DOGE updates + Liberation Day Tariff Reactions with Ben Shapiro and Antonio Gracias
- ▶ 6:42 Jason Calacanis You have to have a social security number in order to work, and you pay into social security and Medicare, uh, just like U.S. citizens, and then eventually, I think you would qualify for those over some period of time.
Billionaire vs. U.S. Senator: Should TikTok Be Banned? · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 4:12 Tom Cotton I mean, even Chuck Schumer, you know, years ago, uh, was saying that fraud or wrongful payments in programs like Social Security and Medicare are actually stealing money from beneficiaries. 2 times in the scene
36 - From Startup to IPO Success with Founder and Family Office Head Rick Lasch
Scaling Medicaid Innovation with Rajaie Batniji, Sanjay Basu, and Afia Asamoah
- ▶ 3:02 Sanjay Basu You know, um, I'm in primary care, like for Jay, doing so-called street medicine work, and so I happen to work at a community health center, which is mostly Medicaid, some Medicare patients.
- ▶ 4:09 Rajaie Batniji And when we started Collective Health, we had like this, this broad vision of we're going to transform how we pay for healthcare across all segments, employer, Medicare, Medicaid, commercial, and that's what we built at Collective Health. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:58 Rajaie Batniji That's like three times what it is in Medicare, three times what it is in commercial.
- ▶ 14:10 Sanjay Basu For example, and we see a lot of folks who are, say, on an injectable medication for the first time, or taking a high-risk medication, Medicaid, unlike commercial and Medicare, has a very high rate of adverse drug events, so-called,…
Howard Lutnick | All-In DC
- ▶ 43:31 Howard Lutnick Not one penny from someone who deserves Medicaid and Medicare.
"I Partner with People" - Chad Byers talks about Venture, Fitness, and Being a Chad.
- ▶ 15:55 Chad Byers It is helping this very big problem of senior citizens in the U S like navigate the Medicare, Medicaid healthcare system, pick the right plans.
Exercise Scientist: How AI & “Miracle Drugs” Can Make You Superhuman · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 37:19 Joe Lonsdale It is actually a great way to have to deal with Medicare and Medicaid, because we're working so hard on fixing this now, and wouldn't that be funny if it just doesn't really matter as much in the future?
- ▶ 41:22 Dr. Mike Israetel And so at that point, I'm kind of like looking at a hacksaw, looking at the, like, I'm tying myself off and being like, here we go, I gotta get Medicare to pay for this.
#117 Lotus: Hardware Hail Mary
- ▶ 6:30 Duval Sanchez Which is why our, one of our B to B segments is actually senior living, because if anyone falls in the facility, they get fined by the state, they get sued by the family, and they get dinged on their star rating by CMS, by Medicare and…
- ▶ 16:18 Neal Bloom Uh, I'm seeing a complete lack of the other side of kind of the founding team who knows how to sell government, sell to Medicare.
#26 Dynofit
- ▶ 8:46 Maria Schneider So, um, it's really important to recover from those and it's the third largest cost center for Medicare. 2 times in the scene
27 - Driving Impact: Balancing Metrics, Culture, and AI in Business with Tree and Leaf Partners Founder Andy Galpin
- ▶ 19:13 Andy Galpin And if the government is going to be stepping back and we're relying more on private services, then we'd be more concerned around Medicare and Medicaid and how much revenue is coming from the government on that front.
23 - Hands-On Investing with Blu Venture Investors Partner and ColoWatch Co-Founder Bikram Bakshi
- ▶ 26:00 Bikram Bakshi CMS, Medicare is usually a pioneer in what they call these demonstration programs.
DOGE vs USAID, Crypto Framework, Google's $75B AI Spend, US Sovereign Wealth Fund, GLP-1s
- ▶ 24:19 Antonio Gracias Trying to work in businesses that had Medicaid and Medicaid Medicare's payments.
DeepSeek Panic, US vs China, OpenAI $40B?, and Doge Delivers with Travis Kalanick and David Sacks
- ▶ 1:42:09 David Friedberg With Medicare and Social Security, discretionary spending is like, 20%. 2 times in the scene
Trump's First Week: Inauguration Recap, Executive Actions, TikTok, Stargate + Sacks is Back!
- ▶ 24:08 Chamath Palihapitiya Sanders asked a similar question around Medicare and Medicaid, and what was interesting is Russ tried to actually answer the question and give the details around where they can be waste, fraud, and abuse.
All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC!
- ▶ 2:32:58 David Friedberg You know, it's just- Medicare. 2 times in the scene
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Dem Rebrand & more w/ Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
- ▶ 15:25 Tom Emmer Medicare and Medicaid.
- ▶ 39:13 Eric Swalwell But like if that effort goes into an area where it's going to cut social security or cut, you know, Medicare, then I think you'll see us be guardians against that.
The END of TikTok?
- ▶ 1:45:42 John Coogan A hundred billion dollars in Medicare, Medicaid fraud, two hundred billion of SBA loan fraud, two hundred and thirty six billion in improper payments, five hundred and thirty six billion dollar wasted. 2 times in the scene
Global Investor Matein Khalid On World Economy | The Neon Show
- ▶ 21:11 Matein Khalid You know, no matter what Elon Musk or anybody else says, uh, you simply cannot cut Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, uh, defense spending or thing.
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn & Paypal Founder: Trump Administration, Elon Musk and DOGE | E1239 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:53 Reid Hoffman Medicare, right?
- ▶ 18:16 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, you mentioned Medicare. 2 times in the scene
American Policymaker Reveals How Politics REALLY Works | Ryan Streeter
- ▶ 1:21:00 Ryan Streeter We're not going to touch Medicare. 3 times in the scene
Oma Health Shocks Investors—$175K Raised in One Pitch!
- ▶ 1:17 Kayla Epps Okay, um, I'm Kayla Epps, CEO and founder of Ulma Health, and my founder's origin story begins with the fact that I grew up with a grandmother who never thought that she'd live long enough to even enroll in Medicare, because pretty much…
Who's Getting Rich Off Ozempic? (e12)
- ▶ 10:01 Jordi Hays Well, one reason is because Medicare doesn't cover weight loss drugs, which is insane. 3 times in the scene
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