Mark Cuban: For Universal Care, We Need to Deal with Health Care Conglomerates First, They Are ‘Contractual Terrorists,’

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CUBAN: "In the five years I‘ve been doing this with CostPlusDrugs.com, part of my job is to listen to the quarterly earnings conference calls and read the transcripts of those companies. Not one time have I ever heard them say that this investment or this change is going to reduce the cost for patients or reduce the cost for employers. Never. And until we get their interests aligned with those of patients and employers, nothing‘s going to change. Which is why I‘ve been a big proponent of the Break Up Big Medicine Bill. We can talk about Medicare-for-all, we can talk about universal health care, but more importantly, right now, as long as these big behemoth conglomerates that are too big to care, that are contractual terrorists, unless we do something about them first, it‘s going to be nearly impossible for any type of universal care to be implemented."