Mark Cuban Asks Why Insurance Pays $2,500 for an MRI When a Center Down the Street Charges $350

Key Highlights

• The question wasn't random.
• It came during a thread where Cuban had already been venting about pharmacy benefit managers and the oversized influence of big insurance companies.
• Don't Miss: Sam Altman Says AI Will Transform the Economy — This Platform Lets Investors Back Private Tech Early The AI Marketing Platform Backed by Insiders from Google, Meta, and Amazon — Invest at $0.85/Share "I'm all for PBM reform," he wrote earlier in the day.
• "But realize that the biggest PBMs are owned by the biggest insurance companies… They are TOO BIG TO CARE… Employer, patient, state, hospital, physician—if they can charge you, they will." That's when a user pushed back, arguing that insurers simply pay the bills submitted by providers and aren't the ones setting sky-high prices.
• Cuban's response—his rhetorical MRI question—cut through the complexity with a blunt price comparison.