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every year anyone David Friedberg 32Chamath Palihapitiya 18Dr. Mehmet Oz 8Jason Calacanis 7David Sacks 5Howard Lutnick 4Senator Ron Johnson 2Mark Cuban 2Tom Emmer 1Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 1
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The Fight Over Open Source AI, Anthropic's $1.5B Payout, NYC Socialists: Evictions = Violence?
- ▶ 49:32 Jason Calacanis New York Times, Medicare.
Dan Dreyfus: The Next AI Bottleneck is Copper
- ▶ 12:31 Dan Dreyfus So Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, pensions.
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
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?
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…
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
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
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
Howard Lutnick | All-In DC
- ▶ 43:31 Howard Lutnick Not one penny from someone who deserves Medicaid and Medicare.
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.
Dave Ricks, CEO of Eli Lilly | The All-In Interview
- ▶ 28:23 Dave Ricks So, um, people who are obese and don't have those conditions, if you're say on Medicare, currently the rule of the federal government is they won't pay.
Mark Cuban: Love/Hate Relationship with Trump, Why He's Backing Kamala Harris
- ▶ 1:43:09 Mark Cuban Um, and so, um, so we put out this price list and all of a sudden Harvard Medical and Vanderbilt and, um, the, all these research institutes took our pricing and compared it to what Medicare was paying for the same drugs.
Senator Kyrsten Sinema | All-In Summit 2024
- ▶ 11:36 Kyrsten Sinema On issue, on, on being able to fund things like Social Security and Medicare, and Congress is doing nothing to solve it, right?
JD Vance | All-In Summit 2024
In conversation with Reid Hoffman & Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- ▶ 1:50:53 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. And it has, and that company is pouring tens of millions of dollars into lobbying to pass this bill that will make Medicare pay for it for every American who's obese.
Trump assassination attempt, Secret Service failure, Inside the RNC, VC liquidity problem
- ▶ 52:03 David Sacks They were foolishly willing to cut programs like Social Security or Medicare, saying that we had to cut the deficit while at the same time funding forever wars.
Presidential Debate Reaction, Biden Hot Swap?, Tech unemployment, OpenAI considers for-profit & more
- ▶ 2:27 Jason Calacanis Making sure that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I've been able to do with the, uh, with the COVID, excuse me, with, um, dealing with everything we have to do with, uh, look, if we finally beat Medicare,
E172: SBF gets 25 years, Trump's meme stock, RFK Jr picks VP, Biden's 2025 budget & more
- ▶ 49:40 Chamath Palihapitiya So, there are some things happening, for example, on the Medicare side, that could be profoundly disruptive.
In conversation with Dean Phillips
- ▶ 59:18 Dean Phillips Every bit of it is now consumed by Social Security, Medicare, and our military.
- ▶ 1:03:18 Chamath Palihapitiya Okay, so now, now go to Medicare, but I think I know what you're going to say because you mentioned it, capitation, but yeah,
- ▶ 1:20:35 Chamath Palihapitiya He's saying some of the right things around capping Medicare, zero based budgeting, the military.
Jared Kushner: Israel-Hamas War, paths forward, macro picture, AI
- ▶ 1:13:10 David Sacks Paul Ryan also wanted to ratchet back entitlements like social security, Medicare, and Trump thought that was suicidal for the GOP.
E151: WW3 risk, War with Iran?, 4.9% GDP, startup failures growing, new Speaker & more
- ▶ 1:32:10 David Sacks On the issue of entitlements, he has expressed support for cutting Medicare and Social Security.
All-In Summit: Ro Khanna on China, political reform, major challenges facing the US and more
- ▶ 32:30 Jason Calacanis Now, now, sorry, real quick, now, now do Social Security and Medicare.
In conversation with Chris Christie
- ▶ 2:42 David Friedberg And then when you look at the demands on Social Security, Medicare, forecasts are that both of those systems necessarily go bankrupt, unless there's some extraordinary measures taken. 3 times in the scene
E131: 2024 Fantasy President picks, debt ceiling agreement, Dollar dominance & more
- ▶ 35:22 David Friedberg That at some point here, our ability to actually fund the programs that we want to fund, whether they're social security, Medicare, or defense, the major cost outlays for the federal government, it's going to get further hindered and… 2 times in the scene
E128: Google enters AI wars, Druck’s warning, Trump crushes CNN & more
- ▶ 24:14 Jason Calacanis You can see today there, uh, as the, the vertical line, about five percent of our GDP goes to Social Security, uh, today, and about another 5.5 goes to, uh, Medicare, Medicaid,
In conversation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- ▶ 23:15 David Friedberg And then obviously there's social security benefits, Medicare, Medicaid. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:41 David Friedberg I think this is my concern is, uh, sorry, but Robert, the, the, the comment you just made is the same comment I hear from both sides of the aisle, that we can't touch Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, because it would be so unpopular we… 3 times in the scene
E115: The AI Search Wars: Google vs. Microsoft, Nordstream report, State of the Union
- ▶ 1:31:47 David Friedberg And the, the scary moment at the State of the Union, besides Biden's inability to kind of articulate much very well, which was, uh, honestly a really discouraging sight to see, was, you know, when he talked about where, you know, the… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:36:07 David Sacks He went all the way back to Dole's vote against Medicare.
E105: Tech culture wars: Elon vs. SBF, Sabotaging Republicans with Trump
- ▶ 32:41 David Friedberg And then we have Medicare and Social Security. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:17 David Friedberg It's the arithmetic that we have a check we have to write every month to pay for Medicare and Social Security. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:01 David Friedberg In addition to interest payments, Social Security and Medicare payments are also ballooning.
E101: Ye acquires Parler, Snap drops 30%, macro outlook, VC metrics, valuing stocks & more
- ▶ 1:26:31 David Friedberg And you assume that the voter base will never vote to reduce social security or Medicare, uh, entitlement programs.
E96: Adobe acquires Figma for $20B, TPB SPAC, FedEx CEO's recession warning, macro picture & more
- ▶ 1:01:00 Chamath Palihapitiya And they're not being sued because, you know, Pfizer takes NIH grants, they, you know, work with the US government, they work with Medicare, they work with Medicaid.
E94: NFT volume plummets, California's overreach, FBI meddling, climate change & national security
- ▶ 38:37 Chamath Palihapitiya So in the IRA, the inflation reduction act, you know, we granted CMS and Medicare, the ability to negotiate drug prices. 2 times in the scene
#AIS: The Lanby's Tandice Urban on solving healthcare's customer service problem
- ▶ 17:31 Chamath Palihapitiya How, how much of a role do you think, um, Medicare, Medicaid, CMS can do to break the logjam versus waiting for politicians to pass legislation like Obamacare to kind of try to reorient what's wrong? 2 times in the scene
E35: Biogen's controversial Alzheimer's drug approval, the billionaire space race, Bitcoin & more
- ▶ 12:50 Chamath Palihapitiya Now, we should talk about that because that shows how broken Medicare Plan B is. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:55 Jason Calacanis And then you're talking about a 100,000 a year, and I think Medicare and some other people pay for that.
E13: SPACsgiving Special! Vaccine news, innovation vs regulation, fixing higher ed, challenge trials
- ▶ 42:31 Chamath Palihapitiya Um, I think you'll probably actually see a lot more choice, um, and deregulation effectively in, um, uh, in Medicare and CMMI.
E1: US Response to COVID-19 & Impact on Startups, VC & Public Markets with David Friedberg
- ▶ 58:09 Chamath Palihapitiya All of those proceeds should go back to the United States Treasury, who should then use it to reinforce Social Security and Medicare, and everything else, because we are going to run a multi multi trillion dollar budget deficit to get out…