re: Mark Cuban is working on healthcare

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because we have little control over our costs

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???

How do you figure that?

Going to subscription based pricing makes it MUCH easier to shop and compare services offered.

The biggest problem in health care is that the biggest buyer of health care--the federal government--is a very poor shopper.

I say we give $X per month to medicare folks and tell them to look for subscription based health plans, compare them, buy the one that fits their needs the best and keep any savings.

Hospitals, for example, would need to offer a plan for hospital care where customers paid $X per month for use of the hospital. There would be no charges for stays and long bills for bed pans ect. A subscriber would pay $100 per month or something and when they needed to go to the hospital they would have a room. This will make shoppers out of all of us and would provide health care providers with predictable streams of income to cover their fixed cost.

It would work.

Making 150 million people shoppers will push cost down.