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So helpful and inspiring. Interesting to consider how initial boldness in tackling drug costs/reducing middleman hidden costs can build momentum around the broader cost drivers of care experiences: time delays/failure to deliver person-centered EBM across patient experience /lack of effective patient enablement tools (self management, decision tools, optimal mgt of lived day-to-day life choices that determine outcomes.) Penn is such a standout in this field (go Dr. Lawrence Shulman, MD). Exciting to consider broader collaboration to include PA/state risk pools and path for digitized mgt of patients over time in conjunction w reducing hidden drug costs. change the bundle incentives to reward all players involved in delivering true data-defined value

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Gotta wonder why Mark Cuban went after Lina Khan, the FTC Chair going after PBMs - you know, the companies that manage spreadsheets and add no value to healthcare. Her exit is our collective loss. Would be more instructive to read Matt Stoller's explanation of the market. Finally, FWIW, I don't want my employer knowing what drugs I take. What an awful idea.

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Employer based health insurance was always a stupid idea, and only established post-WWII to try and hang onto employees, back when the employer was searching for good labor.

People who are really sick are unlikely to be employed. Employers ultimately couldn't care less about their employees' actual health, that's been proven over and over again.

Let employers be pure capitalists looking for the greatest profit. Don't allow them to hold employees hostage and limit people's ability to flow without fear from job to job AS NEEDED and as capitalism would allow if we didn't have this artificial blockage. People hang on to jobs they don't want desperately and unhappily, just because they fear loss of healthcare.

I wish characters like Cuban would admit single payer basic preventive medicine and healthcare, without the middle man and government negotiating prices for the most costly health procedures--just like practically every other highly developed country--is a GOOD thing for both employers and employees. What the hell are employers doing getting involved with something that has absolutely zero to do with their real business models?

Cuban's 'disruptive' solutions and entire business are all responding to problems made by the refusal to do these fundamental basics. In short, he's treating the symptom, not the root cause. It is still profitable, which tells you everything you need to know about how much we are wasting right now as a country. Good government can solve this problem.

So why make it all even more complex, instead of fixing the ROOT cause of the high costs of drugs? In the end, Cuban is just another middleman, creating more junk and confusion for people to wade through, just to get a fair price every other developed country gets already.

I'm all for capitalism, but even Cuban has to admit America is no longer set up to support true capitalism. It is all about monopolies and oligarchies and middlemen with their hands in our pockets. They are plundering our country. The medical industry is a classic example.

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Mr. Cuban, please keep up with your good works. The whole medical/ insurance system in the US right now is horrific. Tonight my daughter informed me that her sister in law has had C. dif since Thanksgiving and is now on her second tier dose of antibiotics. She could find that antibiotic nowhere except at the local hospital pharmacy. They wanted $4,000 for the medication and she couldn’t afford it. She was able to find it for $50 (somewhere) shipped in. Now she waits for it and I shouldn’t need to point out how dangerous this situation is for her and her family. You can just put me in the column of sheer angered and more than ready to see the status quo dismantled.

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