Mark Cuban on running for president, and what he'd do if he was setting government policy

Mark Cuban on running for president, and the best policies for a post Covid-19 recovery

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MARK CUBAN: You know me, Julia. I'm an entrepreneur. I'm never going to say no. But to answer your question directly, healthcare, right? We haven't even had a basic discussion about what happens to healthcare now that, you know, we've got 39, 40 million people who are unemployed and who knows how many, because they reduced hours or reduced wages, or underemployed.

So we went from an environment where we had 45 million people who were eligible for the ACA and 150 million who were on their employer payrolls that could get insurance programs through-- health insurance through their employer. Now those numbers can be completely backwards where we may have 90 million people or whatever-- you know, 45 plus 30-- let's say 75 million people who are eligible for the ACA and maybe only 110 on employer-based insurance.

That creates a whole set of issues in terms of having people have a safety net and being able to be-- to take care of their families if somebody get sick, you know, and not just from COVID, from all the other things we get sick from. And so no one's had even the briefest conversation about that. That's awful, right? Again, that goes back to leadership from both sides, and so that's the first thing I would do.