🏀 Mark Cuban Keeps Explaining Healthcare to Everyone Except the People Living It 🏀
Mark, brother, you’re so close I can taste it. You just told Claudia Williams on “The Other 80” that you’re disrupting healthcare by showing costs and cutting middlemen. You even admitted you put all your health info into ChatGPT because doctors miss drug interactions, like when you discovered you shouldn’t take levothyroxine with iron supplements. Beautiful.
You’re 95% there.
But unless I’m mistaken, you keep talking TO the system (ahem HLTH) instead of WITH patients who live inside it.
You said “I can go to a CEO knowing they don’t really understand their benefits.” Know who understands better? Eric Tennant’s widow. He died from liver cancer after UnitedDeathcare denials delayed treatment.
The man died ON HOLD.
We’re not just “patients.” We’re Fortune 500 executives, policy makers, researchers, entrepreneurs who happened to get sick. MBAs and PhDs. We run companies. We just don’t wear VC hoodies or medical coats.
We’re also not your customers, Mark. We’re your intelligence network.
You told Claudia hospitals don’t know their costs. You said providers claim they can’t afford Medicaid rates but won’t show their general ledger entries. We know exactly. Every denied claim. Every surprise bill. We have the receipts and the medical debt.
Your direct contracting? Genius. Publishing prices? Revolutionary. Your idea to hire a “healthcare CEO” for every company to navigate care? That’s exactly what patients have been doing for free for decades. But you’re missing the biggest disruption: listening to the people getting disrupted.
You responded to Alex’s cold email. Claudia’s cold email. My team’s emailed you several times since you started following and reposting my stuff. When are you responding to the 40M members of the cancer community? Or the 135M members of America’s chronic disease club?
We’re not asking for charity. We’re offering cheat codes.
“Transparency is contagious,” you said. So is patient rage. And 2026 is our watershed year because Main Street has come to realize that we didn’t vote for any of this.
Want to flip healthcare 180 degrees? You told Claudia you need to “disintermediate all these pieces.” We ARE those pieces and we will show you every crack that we’ve already fallen through.
You iterate when you fail. Here’s your iteration: Stop treating patients like end users. We’re product managers who’ve been beta testing this broken system with our bodies and business acumen.
Because NO ONE DIES ON HOLD.
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