Mark Cuban: Obamacare is the world's biggest start-up, and Trump has no clue how it works

Posted by $ nickursis 8 years, 6 months ago to Government
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This says it all. A Government program built on lies and intimidation, voted on by extreme pressure and intimidation, is a "Start up?" This dude could not have made any money legally, if he thinks that is a start up. That is like a mexican drug cartel moving into Texas is a "start up". A "start up" takes investors money, and uses it to create, produce and generate wealth. For him to say this is a start up means he is just a super steriod looter. This is the classic government program: lies, bloat and bailouts, with the taxpayer being raked over the coals to pay for it. Idiots...


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  • Posted by wiggys 8 years, 5 months ago
    maybe mr. Cuban can introduce us to one person and only one who does know how it works.
    certainly not 0.
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  • Posted by term2 8 years, 5 months ago
    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.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 8 years, 5 months ago
    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 If Obama is repealed, who cares who has no clue how it works?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.
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  • Posted by ProfChuck 8 years, 6 months ago
    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.
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 8 years, 6 months ago
    I don't see it as a start-up. Not at all. Hell, one could say that Social Security was a start-up.
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  • Posted by $ 8 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Thank you, for that detailed information, very informative and fills in a good bit of the why. I have no issue with the fact he was smart enough to make things, produce things, but it seems there are 2 breeds of super entrepreneur: 1. Uses money as leverage to make their agenda everyone else's and connects to the political elite. 2. Ones who disdain politics and agendas and pursue their own projects with their money (such as Space X). He seems to be a number 1.
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    Posted by coaldigger 8 years, 6 months ago
    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.
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  • Posted by $ 8 years, 6 months ago
    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.
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