This is from a fascinating exchange between the unnamed writer below and Mark Cuban on health care and who should pay for it.
Mark, you started by saying we have no idea what healthcare costs to buy or to provide in this country. None. Then your conclusion is to propose that the people who cannot see the costs should be the ones to run it.
There is a reason nobody knows what anything costs, and you listed it yourself. Medicaid, Medicare, supplemental plans, Medicare Advantage, self insured employers under a tax code that hides the premium in the paycheck. Every layer you named is a government program or a government created structure, and in every one of them the person getting the care is not the person paying for it. That is where the price went. Prices exist where buyers pay. Remove the buyer and you get exactly the fog you are describing. Universal care removes every buyer who is left.
Then look at what you are asking for. Every private contract in the industry published by federal order. Every claim in the country handed to state and federal researchers. The DOJ turned loose on the pricing structure. Bipartisan legislation to work out what care we need to provide and what it should cost. That is not a market reform. That is the state seizing the information of an entire industry so it can set the terms of trade for every doctor, hospital, and patient in the country. You call the conglomerates Too Big To Care. The entity you want running it is the only one with a monopoly on force.
And the number. The post you are replying to has CBO at $3 trillion a year in new federal spending, 21.4 percent of payroll, with the author conceding it is illustrative and not scored. You respond that nobody knows the real cost and we should find out after we commit. No investor you have ever met would fund a company on those terms, and you have never funded one that way yourself. Only government gets to spend money first and discover the price later, because only government can send the bill to people who did not agree to it.
The information asymmetry you are describing is not a reason to negotiate blind. It is a reason to stop having a single buyer negotiating at all. Put the patient back in the transaction and prices appear on their own. Cost Plus is proof that you already know this.
Mises showed a century ago that a planner without prices cannot calculate, Hayek showed why the knowledge he needs is never in one place, and Rand showed why he has no right to try. You are proposing to prove all three wrong with a commission while you admit no one has any idea how much all of it will cost. Do you think they did not know what they were talking about, or do you just not want to find out?
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Feliz cumpleaños Aminah, mi hija menor, la que completa mi corazón.
Dios te proteja y que seas feliz siempre. Te amo ❤️
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Wiadomość, na którą wszyscy czekaliśmy, właśnie nadeszła.
Dwaj policjanci ranni podczas strzelaniny w Krakowie zostali wybudzeni ze śpiączki. Ich stan jest stabilny.🥹
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🚨 JUST IN: Sec. Marco Rubio was just asked to get involved in the 2026 midterms defeat discussion and his response is PURE CLASS
"I don't comment on domestic politics. Sorry to be less-than-exiting...this role is best done when you DON'T engage yourself in domestic politics. That's a longstanding tradition [for US State Department]." 🇺🇸
He's Secretary of State.
He answers to the president, fights for our national interests overseas, and he does it well!
THANK YOU MARCO!
Dear wives: looking to motivate your man this Christmas to divorce you? Sending this gift would be a great start.
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BREAKING: The Philly Bike Boycott has reportedly ended early because of the overwhelming number of counterprotestors who showed up.
Notice which side is fully masked to hide their identities.
Exceptionally bright, well-informed and highly articulate. Probably not whom you would send out to negotiate with Democrats if you were looking to be conciliatory.
BREAKING: President Trump announces Stephen Miller will become his new White House chief of staff starting Monday, replacing Susie Wiles.
Miller, currently Trump's deputy chief of staff and a longtime trusted adviser, is set to take over one of the most influential positions in the administration.
Trump thanks Wiles for her "outstanding service" and says she will transition to his political operation.
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El Salvador had the highest murder per capita of any nation for decades. It was considered a nation ran by cartels and murderers. Paralyzed by fear! People fled as refugees. Then Bukele came, ...and today it is prosperous, free, and helps other nations in catastrophies.
Le mensonge de l’ONU vient de s’effondrer en une semaine sur Haïti.
Pendant 30 ans, l’ONU et la « communauté internationale » ont multiplié les résolutions, les missions (MINUSTAH, MSS, GSF), les rapports, les expertises et les mandats limités.
Résultat : les gangs contrôlent 80-90 % de Port-au-Prince, des milliers de morts par an, plus d’un million de déplacés, un État fantôme. La Force de Suppression des Gangs, autorisée par le Conseil de sécurité, a mis plus d’un an à déployer environ 1 500 hommes avec un impact dérisoire. Les gangs ont même réussi à tendre une embuscade à des techniciens salvadoriens sous mandat ONU.
Bukele arrive. En une dizaine de jours, il déploie plus de 2 000 soldats salvadoriens davantage que toute la force ONU, hors du carcan bureaucratique et des chaînes de commandement multilatérales. Pas de six mois de négociations, pas de rapports de 200 pages, pas de « respect des droits des gangs ». Juste des soldats, des blindés, des hélicoptères, et une volonté claire.
Et soudain, les gangs se cachent. Les habitants sortent dans la rue, crient, célèbrent. Le mot d’ordre est simple : « Se débloque le pays ». Les chefs de gangs appellent l’ONU pour « dialoguer » et demander la médiation. La panique s’installe chez ceux qui terrorisaient le pays depuis des années.
Ce n’est pas un miracle. C’est la démonstration que le problème n’a jamais été « trop complexe pour être résolu ». Le problème, c’était le dogme : que seule l’approche multilatérale molle, procédurale, obsédée par les « droits humains » des criminels, pouvait être légitime. Que la souveraineté, la force décisive et les résultats concrets étaient suspects.
Bukele a déjà prouvé chez lui qu’on pouvait casser les gangs. Il vient de le montrer en Haïti en une semaine, pendant que l’ONU en parlait depuis trois décennies. Les Haïtiens dans la rue l’ont compris plus vite que les experts de New York et de Genève.
La question n’est plus « comment faire ? ».
Elle est : combien de temps encore allons-nous prétendre que les processus internationaux qui perpétuent le chaos sont la seule solution possible ?
A bon entendeur.
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Any politician arguing that the Iranian regime and its proven obsessive pursuit of nuclear weapons and thousands of intercontinental ballistic missiles can be contained please explain in detail how that can be done.
I’ve no interest in the isolationist propaganda and their suicidal ideology, which should be dismissed outright. I’m addressing this to those who insist we hit the sites in June 2025 and that was enough, when the indisputable facts show it was not.
Is Haiti on its way to break all predictions? Millions in aid have been sent for 5 decades, just to be stolen by gangs and corrupt politicians. Missionaries, volunteers from the World have tried to help. Nothing could help until Hati got rid of the criminal gangs!
Yes, this is real news. A gang leader captured by the Haitian Coast Goard (what remains) and the Salvadoran army. He was fleeing to Bahamas! I know we have lots of problems in other places, but, if Haiti can recover, there is no reason for any other place not to!
Rubio sobre Iran en marzo. " construyen misiles a la velocidad de 100 al mes, cuando podemos solo construir 6 Anti_misile interceptores al mes. Ataca estructura civil, embajadas, etc a pesar que Iran esta débil, imagínense lo que harain con un arma nuclear!
El recién elegido Senador de Michigan, Musselman de una familia que apoya a la Hermanda Musulmana (Egipto, org Terrorista) ha dicho que por ser elegido, Michigan es la CAPITAL DE LA AMERICA ARABE y habrán mas
I pray DeSantis can do this before fast, and that all states follow the same policy. The story of this judge releasing this criminal into our streets, to be arrested short time later after killing another child, it is not acceptable at any term.
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Pèp ayisyen,
Dessalines te libere Ayiti, men kèk moun ki te bò kote l te trayi l epi touye l. Moun ki te sanble avè l, ki te pale menm lang avè l, men ki pa t gen menm prensip avè l. Se te trèt ki t ap chèche sèlman avantaj pèsonèl yo, e ki te plonje Ayiti nan plizyè jenerasyon soufrans ak mizè.
Trèt sa yo toujou egziste ann Ayiti. Yo pa eritye Dessalines, yo se eritye trèt ki te asasinen l yo e ki te detwi eritaj li. Genyen ki manm gang, gen lòt ki finanse gang yo oswa ki ba yo zam, e gen kèk ladan yo k ap fè tout sa yo kapab pou anpeche pèp ayisyen an jwenn libète li.
Wi, anpil etranje te piye Ayiti, men anpil Ayisyen te fè menm bagay la tou. Yo te kolabore ak etranje sa yo, sèvi ak zam yo, vann dwòg yo, kontwole teritwa pou yo, epi fè pèp la sibi soufrans moun pa menm ka imajine.
Èske nou panse etranje sa yo t ap kapab fè tout bagay sa yo san èd moun sa yo? Kiyès k ap lonje zam sou nou? Kiyès k ap touye moun nou renmen yo? Kiyès ki vòlè kay nou ak byen nou yo, si se pa menm kalite bandi trèt ak sa yo ki te trayi epi asasinen Dessalines?
Nou kapab ede nou bat yo, men nou pa anvayisè. Nou se moun ki gen kouraj menm jan ak nou. Fòk nou leve kanpe, reprann kontwòl kominote nou yo, epi mete moun k ap fè nou sibi tout doulè sa yo, tout soufrans sa yo, anba kontwòl nou.
N ap la menm bò kote nou. N ap ede nou reprann peyi nou anba men trèt ki trayi eritaj Dessalines yo.
Epi, finalman, Ayiti ap lib.
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Seriously? These woke nihilists continually spout lies. Are you being blind to this? When terrorists slaughter people, they place their children at risk. Every death is at the hands of Hamas, including the innocent.
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