Mark was raised in Mt Lebanon, a suburb of Pittsburgh. This is where I lived and my wife and I raised our 4 kids. mark is a few years younger than my oldest son and a few older than my middle son. All the kids from Mt Lebanon were smart. All of their parents were college graduates and worked for large corporations. Mt Lebanon HS paid PhD's more than the University of Pittsburgh, had astroturf before the Steelers, an indoor and outdoor Olympic pool and a ice skating facility that was rented as the practice facility for the Penguins until they could afford their own. Mt Lebanon's clay tennis courts were used for the US Amateur championships and were covered with inflatable bubbles for year around use before this was common elsewhere.

After going away to college for a few years, my daughter said "Dad, we were raised in a bubble just like the tennis courts." We thought all African Americans were just like Dr. Wooton's son, Danny. We thought going to a non-Ivy League college was a failure. We thought there was no violence, crime, or poverty and that everyone's mom drove them to piano lessons while their dad's wore suits and went downtown every day. Mark, was born and raised in that bubble. While in grad-school, he and another buddy missed being able to listen to University of Indiana basketball games and devised a means of streaming sports on the internet which was just taking off. Yahoo bought their little company for something like $4 B which allowed him to buy a NBA franchise and build his own bubble. In this context it is not surprising to see that he has never completed his growth from adolescence to adulthood. Anyone that looks to him for advice on how social issues would be better off consulting with my 14 year old granddaughter whos mother recognized 25 years ago that the world outside the bubble is where reality prevails.

I would further add:

"Cuban is an admirer of author and philosopher Ayn Rand.[119] About Rand's novel The Fountainhead, he said, "[It] was incredibly motivating to me. It encouraged me to think as an individual, take risks to reach my goals, and responsibility for my successes and failures. I loved it."[120] His political views have leaned toward libertarianism.[121] He held a position on the centrist Unity08 political organization's advisory council.[122] While leaning towards libertarianism, Cuban posted an entry on his blog claiming paying more taxes to be the most patriotic thing someone can do.[123]"

I cannot see someone identifying with AR and then saying the hugest power grab in history made with deceit, and extending government control, is "a start up". This just does not compute. The dude has done well for himself, and made a butt ton of money, by getting in the internet revolution before almost anyone else. He did have a talent for seeing the future, but this statement is just BS.

Obamacare is an excellent example of why centralized planning doesn't work. It purports to be a system that will provide health care for all. This is a colossal fabrication. Obamacare has nothing to do with providing health care only how it is paid for. The ACA "Affordable Care Act" is an oxymoron in its own right. We now see that there is nothing affordable about it and that appears to be by intent. It is a stratagem to force the implementation of a single payer system or socialized medicine. The problem is that it leaves out an important component of the system, the actual health care providers. My doctor whom I have known for over 30 years will be retiring soon and that will leave me and my wife scrambling to find a new one. The problem is that only a sadomasochist wants to become a doctor these days because of all the regulations and constraints placed on the practice of medicine. And who wants a sadomasochist as a physician? Fully one third of my doctors staff exists only to assure compliance with regulations and this has a negative impact on his ability to provide care. When I visit him he must spend fully half of his time practicing defensive medicine so he won't get sued or arrested. This is a direct result of government interference in the practice of medicine.

At first I thought that as a business man, Cuban would surely recognize the difference between a government enterprise and a private enterprise. Apparently, I was wrong. Many millionaires and billionaires got rich by having an idea that was planted in the fertile ground that was the beginning of the internet outbreak or had a new idea that simply caught on. While these people became very rich they were not experts in business by any means. There weren't many Steve Jobs among them.

I have no respect for Mark Cuban. I have stopped watching Shark Tank, which I loved. I wrote the producers telling them I would not watch a single episode with Mark Cuban in it going forward.

For being in a program that idolizes startups and the american dream, how could he campaign for Hillary Cliinton- the opposite of that. He has no integrity and no intellectual consistency.

As Mr Wonderful says, "he is dead to me". i dont even listen to anything he has to say now or in the future.

This election has given me (and a lot of others) an easy window into the souls of people who actually vote for Hillary. I want nothing to do with these people and its now EASY to pick them out- fortunately.

Uh, is it just me? If Obama is repealed, who cares who has no clue how it works?
Like Trump, me dino already knows the unaffordable Affordable Health Car Act is based on lies, a paperwork nightmare, a detriment to medical careers and bankrupts the budgets of producers to provide healthcare to moochers.

Mark Cuban is self insured therefore only knows about Obamacare whatever propaganda he's been spoon fed. Besides, he wanted to be VP for Trump, then Clinton and neither one looked in his direction. The description of growing up in a bubble by coaldigger is as good an example of his thought pattern as I've ever read.

Cuban better stick to sports, he has no idea about "start up" and certainly about the poor and middle class insurance woes. He seems to have no memory, or he was not paying attention, but Obamacare is what came when Hillary failed to convince doctors that her system was doable. She did not listen, as usual, she lectured, as she went across the country. Then Obama got this plan in, but this is not what she wants. She wants a single payer, government controlled system, the way she wants to control everything about our lives. My advice to the "Jethro Bodine" of sports is, go do some reading and find out what you are talking about. By the way, if you don't have enough fingers, use your toes.

An idiot with a billion dollars is still...an idiot.

Shut up, Mark, and go watch your team play basketball. That's about all you're good for, anyway.

maybe mr. Cuban can introduce us to one person and only one who does know how it works.
certainly not 0.

I don't see it as a start-up. Not at all. Hell, one could say that Social Security was a start-up.

Neither do demoncraps...or obobo for that matter.

"I don't agree with her in all of her positions, but I think that she understands how government works enough that I can lobby against her." -- Mark Cuban

I agree with most everything he saying. I don't like the startup metaphor for PPACA. A startup typically uses a disruptive technology to bring products or services to market the previously could use them b/c they were too complicate, too expensive, not available in that area, etc. PPACA sort-of does that in providing "insurance" for people who are already sick, but it also limits the types of insurance contracts that people can make. That goes contrary to the startup metaphor. It also makes it harder (I'm not sure on the mechanics of this) for people to make deals outside of insurance. I think maybe the gov't puts pressure on insurance companies to pressure providers not only to give their customers a price break but not to give a good price to others. I suspect the reason for this is now that insurers are not pricing risk of perils (i.e. providing real insurance), they want to hold on to anything that justifies their existence. Customers seem to like the idea of turning over management of the details to these companies, but I think that's a huge problem. All that makes me not see PPACA as very startupish, if that's a word.