Mark Cuban on a16z: run every benefits contract through AI and ask where you're getting ripped off
a16z · youtube · 2026-10-28
a16z podcast conversation with Mark Cuban on AI and healthcare costs.
- Cuban's concrete advice: employers should run every benefits contract through AI and ask "where are they screwing me over?" — AI can't save you after you sign, but it can expose opaque pricing beforehand
- Cost Plus Drugs grew from 111 meds to 4,000 SKUs, with $20M mobile factories that can make any drug and direct contracts bypassing middlemen; trust is its core product
- Covers how UnitedHealth really makes money, why tech alone won't fix healthcare, personalized medicine and the end of one-size-fits-all drugs, and why doctors won't be replaced
- His advice to the AI industry: use AI to learn, not as an excuse to stop thinking
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