What Mark Cuban REALLY thinks of Medicare for All

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  NPR.

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  Medicare for all is one of the hottest topics this election season.

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  Do you want a national health insurance program that replaces the private system?

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  And a lot of Americans are saying, yeah, give me some of that.

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  A poll from The Economist and YouGov found about two thirds of Americans now support Medicare for all.

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  And if you've been to a doctor's office,

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  paid for a brand name drug or just a health insurance premium, you probably understand why.

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  This is The Indicator for Planet Money.

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  I'm Ricky Mulvey.

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  I'm Adrian Ma.

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  Today on the show, Part B. We're continuing our conversation about the economics of Medicare for All.

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  We'll address two questions.

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  One, are we being honest about the cost of Medicare for All?

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  And two, Do we know what we spend on health care right now?

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  I mean, it's so bad you can go through a long list of really quality hospitals and they don't know their costs.

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  That's Mark Cuban.

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  You may know him as an owner of the Dallas Mavericks from Shark Tank.

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  Mark is also co-founder of Cost Plus Drugs, an online pharmacy that offers transparent pricing on medicines.

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  And Mark has basically stared into the belly of the beast that is the American health care system.

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  And what he saw, well, he tells us that after the break.

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