Cost Plus Drugs is life-changing! I’m a benefits administrator for my non-profit employer. I tell all our employees about CPD - I even help them look up their meds to compare against conventional health insurance, Medicare part D, or whatever coverage they may or may not have. I’ll never forget the first time I looked up a drug on Cost Plus Drugs: one of our retiring employees told me that her cholesterol medication was costing her $300 a month, even with Medicare part D. The price on Cost Plus Drugs for the same dosage? $8.41 for a 90-day supply! Mark Cuban deserves a Nobel prize for bringing change (and humanity) to pharma.
Except only in America are the prices so crazy. I have lived and travelled around the world and just last month i was in the ER in the Philippines recently for an upper respiratory tract infection that gave me a fever of 104 and difficulty breathing. Medication and 7 hours of being in a bed at the ER hooked to machines and with many tests done costs 247 USD. It would have cost well over 10k in the US easily.
I met with an american in Germany at an ophthalmology clinic who came because he forgot his eye medication when he came from the US. He told that the price of the medication directly from the german pharmacy was cheaper than the value of the co-pay he was making for the same prescription!
Mark Cuban saved my life. Blue Cross decided one day to recategorize the drug I'd been on for years, making it unaffordable to the tune of several hundred bucks a month. CPD gets it to my door for $40.
if it gets too expensive come to scotland and all prescriptions and medication, operations, therapies are free to every user, even visitors, and asylum seekers, and yet we pay less taxes for our NHS than americans pay, and you still have to pay for everything not covered by private insurance. we dont realize how lucky we are compared to americans. or you can always try Canada - they were smart enough to copy us. The USA is the only developed nation NOT TO HAVE a national health service. its the USA ranks about 34th by any measure of health, infant mortality, maternal mortality, clean water, and basically any other measurement.
Glad to hear he's fixing the broken American system and making it as affordable as the rest of the world. It's crazy that insurance is obfuscating the costs, then the government is subsidising it, to such a crazy degree it's making everything in USA the most expensive in the world.
@@diego_villena Mark Cuban’s pharmacy charges $11.90 for a months’s supply of a drug that’s retail cost is $396.00. He hasn’t saved my life like yours, but has made my chronic condition treatable and thereby a tremendous difference in my life. This is life-changing philanthropy and business combined. I am very grateful.
@@onelemonadestand Many ultra rich WANT to pay their fair share actually. Cuban might actually be one of them, I'm not sure though. I'm completely with you on power to the people though. So much so that I would support some form of direct democracy. When we make voting a required civic duty or at least a sizeable credit on taxes perhaps, and get rid of money in politics just like Cuban has done in health care, democracy will function as it is intended. The truth though, is that we are not ready for that. There's too much hate and ignorance in the world to just quantum leap to utopia. But I believe we are definitely moving in the right direction, it's just moving a lot slower than the changes to climate and exponential tech growth rate that are happening, which are some of the biggest disruptors of humanity's existence
Mark Cuban understands there's nothing wrong with making a profit. However, when healthcare companies are robbing and hurting the people they are suppose to take care of, it's time for something to change. It's amazing he decided to take a stand and started setting up companies helping out others in need. Much respect for Mark and I hope this will start a change in the healthcare industry.
@@andrewflowers6794 It would be more similar if only Nike and Adidas were allowed to make footwear. That's pretty much how the medical industry in the US operates. It's crazy that it's even allowed. America needs some REALLY strong anti-monopolization laws that stop this stuff before the GOP can even rig the tax code and laws to favor monopolizing enterprises.
@@JimmyNuisance America already has extremely strong anti-trust and anti-monopoly laws. The problem is Republicans do not want them enforced and so they have not been enforced properly since Ronald Reagan. We need to pressure them to enforce the laws we already have on thr books. Those laws are what broke up the Bell Telephone monopoly when I was a kid.
As an FNP in a clinic and an RN in an acute care hospital, I tell all of my patients about Cost Plus Drugs. I love Mark Cuban for being an agitator and a disruptor in a very corrupt industry.
@@dhekwucieoejdufrepublicans whole goal is to privatize everything, which is why mega corporations have this power in the first place. Not to say Dems aren’t also to blame but cmon man
At <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1286">21:26</a>, Cuban mentions his partner, Alex Oshmyansky. I went to high school with Alex, and he's not only smart AF, he's also one of the kindest, funniest, most genuinely likeable people you'll ever meet. Alex, if you're reading this for some reason: I always knew you'd do something really big to make the world a better place, and I've never been happier to be proven right. Keep sticking it to The Man, my friend! ❤️
Hey Alex Oshmyansky if you're reading this it's your other high school buddy, I've fallen on hard times could you help me out and loan me $100,000 I know that's like nothing to you it's the equivalent of a normal person loaning a dollar.
Looked into Alex's past he graduated college at 18 got his MD at Duke likely before his 21st birthday an got an MD/PhD at Oxford. "Oshmyansky was born in Denver, Colorado into a Jewish family of immigrants from the Soviet Union and grew up in Littleton, Colorado, about 9 miles south of Denver. He attended Dakota Ridge High School in Littleton. Oshmyansky attended the University of Colorado Boulder, graduating at the age of 18 and majoring in biochemistry. He then attended Duke University for medicine. He also completed a DPhil (PhD) in mathematics at St. Cross College, University of Oxford as a Marshall Scholar."
I think it’s funny that Mark kinda has proven that the conditions in which capitalism is healthy for the consumers is adding transparency. Which is like one of the first things you learn in an Econ course, which is why businesses don’t want markets to be transparent lol.
@@Exisist5151 Transparency can have unexpected effects. When salaries were publicized, workers got jealous of each other, even though some are more valuable than others, and executives began ratcheting up their own salaries astronomically.
Wow, Jon is on a completely different level as an interviewer! He pays attention Poses follow up questions that are pertinent. Not just a bunch of pre written drivel. He keeps the guests engaged. A master class.
All true except that in this particular interview, he interrupted Mark Cuban way too much. I was getting really annoyed that he wouldn't let him even finish his sentences. MC seemed to be talking faster and faster, seemingly trying to finish a thought before he got interrupted again LOL.
Couldn't agree more, OP. WAAAAAAAAY too many reporters & interviewers are just listening for their next chance to talk. Stewart listens, and talks about what he heard.
@@epona9166 Imagine you have 25 minutes and want to cram into it as much as possible. Is this a RU-vid only extended version, or does all of it air on CC regular programming... that's probably not how most people watch these shows anyways?
ICU Nurse for 10 years now in Medical devices, my epilepsy meds were $1100 for three months before I hit my $2500 deductible, $350 with GoodRX but I had to drive 45min. With Cost Plus Drugs I pay $40 for three months and it’s mailed to me, I tell everyone u can about it.
Not wants to tackle, is doing so. I looked at the website, never heard of it before. Unsurprising in our media landscape. The price savings are literally astounding.
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Drug development that takes federal funding shouldn't be patentable.
A humble billionaire that values time with his family more than "the ring of power." Thank you, Mark and Jon, for a fun, fast paced conversation. I hope Mark becomes a regular on the show. Have a great day!
Don't let him fool you... I foresee a 2028 or a 2032 run by Cuban... He just doesn't want to run against Trump... Cuban knows there's a chance to lose against Trump, someone like Cuban wants a Sure Win...
no such thing as an ethical billionair, to get that much money you need to exploit human life on a massive scale. Don't be fooled by carefully crafted public persona.
@@IVeNoMIIexcept he didn't. He sold a company with early streaming tech to yahoo and flipped that in to an NBA team that just happen to appreciate like crazy due to TV deals.
@@IVeNoMII While our system should not allow for billionaires, individual billionaires can still ”be ethical”, if that even means anything. Hating individuals because they’ve gained from the current system just doesn’t make much sense and changes nothing.
I also love love Mark Cuban and Cost Plus Drugs! When it came out I sent them a love letter. I have a medication that I'll need for life and previously it was $30/month. Then went generic and became over $400/mo so I had to order it from Canada for a while (illegally). I went on like this for 2 years, when CP came out my medication was back to $25+ $5 shipping. I can cry how thankful I am to him for doing this. I'm a physician and discuss medications/cheaper alternatives, etc on a daily basis with my patients. Thank you for disrupting a sickening only for-profit-health-care-insurance-system. I went into medicine to care for patients - and Cost Plus Drugs helps me stay in it.
Remember guys, being the "best billionaire" is a pretty low bar ... If you're using the worst billionaires for reference any person who is not _openly_ psychopathic can seem ethical.
I work in a doctor's office and if Mark can bring change to the healthcare system, I will be forever grateful. I spend way too much time on the phone getting half assed answers and then fighting on behalf of the patient for their coverage.
Living overseas in the UK, I understand how large the profiteering of healthcare & unchecked capitalism is dangerous in the US. Fentanyl addiction isn't a thing here. Get rid of all pharmaceutical advertising and nationalise healthcare. The average prescription here is approximately $11.55 and free if you have to be on medication for the rest of your life or have a life threatening illness. It's not always perfect, but it's so much better than nothing.
I wrote a paper on PBMs for a college course on the economics of healthcare and I was shocked at what I found. They are meant to keep drug costs stable but they’ve done the opposite because, you guessed it - they found it was more profitable to do the opposite. So when the drug manufacturers raise the price of a drug, the PBM charges them a penalty. You would think this discourages the manufacturer from raising prices. Instead, when the PBM collects more fees from the drug manufacturer, rather than recommending that the insurance company remove the drug from their index, they are more likely to recommend keeping it. In other words, that penalty for raising the price acts as a bribe, so drug prices shoot up year after year and the insurance companies raise their premiums to cover it and the patient is stuck overpaying for a drug that may not be the ideal treatment for them but it’s the only one that’s covered for their condition. It’s sick.
Totally agree with you - they have discovered that making the market INEFFICIENT allows them to make money. The whole healthcare industry is rife with that method, and it works because you cannot comparison shop, you can't judge quality well (it is less about the doctor and more about the team taking care of you), and medicine is far too complex for most to understand well. Nearly every individual will seek out higher reimbursement if they can - that's natural. Deliberately obfuscating costs and creating impenetrable systems to maintain that veil of secrecy leads us to spend double the amount of money per patient per year for the same or worse outcomes.
Healthcare for profit has become increasingly expensive and has inequivalent distribution across this Nation (USA) since 1965 and start of Medicare. Then there's the "science" of health insurance INDUSTRY itself. No wonder there are fewer Americans interested in studying Medicine, Nursing and allied health professions in this Nation.
@@nicholasbrowning7410 convert to the Swiss or German health care system and be done with it. Would solve a lot of problems without much job loss. Just Big PBM.
And this is done under the auspices of the successful lobbyist to take full advantage of ACA loopholes. PBMs should be out of this entirely, but then we'd see variations of single-payor systems which the majority of American equate to 'communism' or 'socialism' due to the political decisions made at the expense of people that know nothing about drug costs and access.
@@OuTSMOKEcongrats on the most wildly ignorant thing I've read today. time for me to get off here for the day. and to think, all this time, I was under the belief that my addiction was holding a gun to my head, and now all my problems have melted away, wow!
Mark Cuban gets a pass from the guillotines. He may be a billionaire but he also took on a fight for the people that only a billionaire could take up. Props.
Honestly, would be great goals for anyone who wants to be a billionaire. He retains humanity, despite having that huge power. Maybe he read Superman as a kid and took it to heart. He shoulders the responsibility well.
We are so happy to have Cuban here in Texas. He's the most real and down to earth dude to literally everyone he talks to. He's just like this if you meet him at a game. I love when money doesn't change people.
Not the biggest fan of Mark Cuban, but he has his heart in the right place and is funnelling his skills to right causes. This was refreshingly smart discussion and boy have I missed these. I learned a ton! Thank you Jon and Mark!
I used to like Jon Stewart in 2000s but the more I see him now, the more apparent it is that he’s just a clintonite shill. I mean the interview with Hillary and Condoleezza was continuous 🤦🏻 when you remember his constant criticism of Bush’s Iraq.
Id also recommend the interview Stewart does with Bob Iger when Stewart was doing his show on Apple+. Iger is intelligent and, like Cuban, can talk with left-leaning interviewers without looking dumb or evil.
Had no idea about his pharmacy till recently… truly inspiring stuff to make expensive drugs affordable for people dying or people trying to fight horrible diseases. He’s a legend.
He's just trying to get into the healthcare market. If he really cared, he'd advocate for universal, single-payer healthcare. But he doesn't. All that matters is the Shark Tank. 🤑
Sounds exactly like President Trump's Executive Order on Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Healthcare in 2019 that Biden had gotten rid of in 2021 when he took office...
It's still crazy for me, an Australian, and hearing about the cost of medicine in the US. For a nation that is meant to be the wealthiest, how do you not have a public healthcare system that assists the most vulnerable.
It's „easy“. Make people believe that any form of this kind of support is „socialism“ and that you only have to pick yourself up on your bootstraps and you'll work your way out of the mess you’re in and that it's always been this way in AMERICA and that this is the American way and it’s what made this country great in the first place. Repeat this lie often enough and reach enough people, basically use a platform like Fox to spout this nonsense, and there you go…
There are lots of things I don't like about Cuban, but you can't argue against the fact that he is making some real positive impacts in the medical systems of our country.
Cost Plus Drugs is such a game changer. No more fighting with my insurance or PBMs or pharmaceutical companies every January. The actual price comparison of a 90-day supply of my MS meds: Your drug cost with us $108.50 You save $19742.11 on your medication Retail price at other pharmacies $19850.61
Mark brought tears to my eyes, he is what we need more of, honest business people who know how to change the disgusting greed in this country to fairness. Thank you for making the world a better place!
@maryammosavi269 One of the great billionaires is Mark Cuban with great empathy and integrity. Elon Musk doesn't know empathy or integrity, meaning. He is a disgusting human being. 😡🤬🫣👎👎🤮🤮🤦♀️
With tech bro's (and DJT incidentally) it's pure hubris... the sense of entitlement is profound. What Mark Cuban appears to have is genuine humility which makes him very rare amongst the 0.1%- love the authenticity. Thanks for getting him on the show.
One of the things I always love about Jon is he's always prepared for the interviews and talks to the interviewee with more than a highlight knowledge of the subject.
Mark Cuban was so cool in my household back in highschool (early 2000s) I'm glad to see he held to be an upstanding and outstanding human being over the decades❤
My doctor told me to check out Cost Plus for my prescription. I did. I checked 3 pharmacies with the Rx Insurance I have. Cost Plus was $100.00 cheaper without insurance than all 3. Thank you!
My father started generic store in 2014-15 in Khandesh region of Maharashtra, India, the first in the region and has opened 7 stores since. Doctors would not recommend generics because they get cut from recommending expensive drugs and spread fud, so he started clinics where you get a basic checkup for 25 cents. Today the clinics treats ~60,000 -80,000 people annually. Governments should make it mandatory for doctors to inform patients about generic drugs. We are a middleclass family and even my 93 year old gradmother goes there when she gets cold or is feeling weak. People shouldn't have to suffer simple ailments because of lack of information. Having access to affordable healthcare is a great relief. India is one of the largest exporter of generic medicines to Europe.
As someone that used to work for an insurance company and then a major pharmaceutical company, Cuban is right on the money. Most HRs don’t know the nitty gritty of their benefit contracts and the insurance companies their employer is covered under actively try to dissuade employees from getting their hands on their insurance contracts. Because knowledge is power and you don’t want your potential claimants having any. Then you have these PBMs that are MASSIVE and who have bought out the industry up and down the supply chain (ex. CVS owns Caremark which does exclusive business with wholesaler Cardinal who also has a medical insurance arm so they force feeding people to their services exclusively by only offering competitive prices within their own ecosystem). Nothing is clearly laid out while prices and available services are intentionally obfuscated. It’s soul crushing, and so deeply entrenched in the American healthcare system that’s it’s a Herculean task to untangle at this point.
I've always said the way to have better healthcare for all is by making private pharma companies public. Mark Cuban is my hero for this and eases my heart knowing someone is trying to do something serious with this problem
Mark Cuban is a saint for starting this company. He didn't have to. He could have charged 30% over markup and still be seen as hero; he chose not to do this. Certainly, Mark Cuban made some enemies of some of the other very powerful and rich families. However, Cuban saw an injustice, acted upon it and fixed it. Thanks buddy.
That how they should all be because to be honest, non of them can spend all the money they have… it’s about power and saying yours is bigger than theirs like always except that you don’t take any of it in the grave…
Yeah it can happen. You could be a capitalist and still have a heart. It's about the percentage you take for your own pocket. You know cuz the business is going to cost the business. You're going to hire a few workers and you may have to hire a few more, but it's the percentage you take back in terms of salary or bonuses if let's say bonuses as they used to be in stocks were capped salaries as they were. You know started the 20th century all the way to 1980. When the average worker the bottom worker made in comparison to the CEO the CEO would make about 20 times.... Now it's over 200 plus percent and not including stocks and that's how base their salaries on
Mark Cuban I have to personally thank you for Cost Plus Drugs. I have saved so much money and worry by being able to use this for my maintenance meds. You have also helped so many of my friends and I will be forever grateful to you for that.
As a Gen Xer, I completely agree with Mark Cuban that Gen Z is just plain nicer. Kids today are fantastic and I have a lot of optimism for their generation.
Also Gen X, also impressed with Gen Z, and hopeful for their futures. They know what crumbling infrastructure FEELS like to grow up in, to be in active shooter drills, and what a group of passionate, intelligent, kind people can do to help the world.
Same, Gen Xer with a 20 and 16 y/o, and they are way kinder than we were. I put on in a TV show called Freaks and Geeks that kind of covers how our childhood was in the 80's, and they were both shocked... literally shocked, and kept asking.. were kids really like this when you grew up? Refreshing as fk to hear that.
@@seansmith3058 - Not wishful thinking at all. Kids today are less violent, smoke less, have fewer teen pregnancies, commit less crimes, tend to be more accepting of others, and are more civic minded. Vox did a detailed breakdown of Gen X to Gen Z and found that in nearly every category, Gen Z was objectively better.
Mark Cuban has helped so many women by making menopause hormone therapy affordable. I tell all of my patients about CostPlus. He is amazing and I love his life philosophy of putting his family first and helping others. ❤ I wish he wasn’t interrupted so often hear because I want to hear more from him! His interview on Trevor Noah’s podcast was excellent.
I gotta shout out this guy, I had internal bleeding two summers ago and no insurance. Without cost plus drugs, I honestly don't know how I would have gotten the medication I needed right. I was quoted, 100s, I got it for 10s. I work hourly paycheck to paycheck and with having to miss work from the procedures. I needed woof. Glad he's disrupting the healthcare industry.It's a racket
@@ikechukwuobidike9440 I mean with Mark Cuban I want to say not necessarily. Didn’t he jump on a trend of like streaming sports games way way way way way before anyone else thought of doing that? And then he sold early?. Seems fairly clean to me.
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If he cared about the healthcare industry, he'd advocate for single-payer, universal healthcare. But he can't, because then he's not making a profit off of other people. 🤑
@@williamyoung9401I don't think it's relevant if he doesn't promote universal healthcare. What he's doing with cost plus drugs is still a massive step forward for you guys in the US. it's easier to play into the system and "disrupt" from the inside than promote something that unfortunately (and realistically) isn't coming any time soon.
@@williamyoung9401 A realistic path for some form of universal healthcare in the U.S. is the Public Option. It was supposed to be included in the Affordable Care Act in 2010 but was removed after senator Joe Lieberman threatened to filibuster it.
I could listen to Jon and Mark talk everyday, all day. Mark has great answers/knowledge/insight/farsight and Jon has great questions because he’s well-read and smart. Mark has his priorities straight focusing on healthcare, it’s a huge racket. A racket might be expected in horse races but not our well being.
Man I never knew until recently how amazing Mark Cuban is. I knew him mainly from Shark Tank. It's amazing how politically astute he is and it's also inspiring to see a billionaire who actually still has his soul intact. Can't wait to see what he does next to disrupt our BROKEN healthcare system. Cost Plus Drugs looks amazing! Thank you Mark!
Thank you Mr. Stewart for having Mark Cuban on your show to discuss the prescription drug prices and what he is doing with his company to combat the overly high prices consumers pay. Very informative!
Married to a pharmacist for 25 years; he graduated in 1976. Just took a look at the Cost Plus Drugs website. This is phenomenal. Thank you, Mark Cuban. You just earned a new fan. In the '70s and '80s, my husband would come home from work and complain about his customers who were on fixed incomes who were complaining about the prices of their prescriptions going up. His answer? "Well, if you had this illness 20 years ago, you'd be dead. There were no medications for it then. At least you've got some drugs you can take for it now."
Mark Cuban is the wealthy Tim Walz. Just some guy who lives an honest life, loves his family, and wants to help people. Oh, and he owns an NBA franchise.
I've always liked Mark Cuban, but after watching this interview I have the utmost respect for this man because he is a rarity as far as Tech billionaires are concerned. He is the genuine article and exemplification of what "American Excellence" is all about. He's making money and at the same time has compassion for the everyday working man and middle class. Disrupting our Healthcare System by making everything transparent to have affordable drugs. If more CEOs ran their business like this, we wouldn't have high food, gas and housing prices.
Elon Musk has a transgender daughter who hates him because he won't accept her. He says she was killed by "the woke mind virus." So it's just funny that everyone deadnames Twitter, and he can't do anything about it. Also funny: Musk's _gender affirming care_ in the form of cosmetic surgery and hair plugs.
@@neko6 There are ads from 1982 that I saw three times and are still stuck in my head. If I see a coffee tin... best part of waking up starts playing. 40 years later. Imagine if I saw a catchy tune that day... The Capitol of Ohio is Columbus in my cup.
Such a great stuard of our citizens in the USA. Mark Cuban is a true patriot selflessly making America Still Great. Thank you John, for having Mark on the show...more please.
I totally agree that Mark is doing great things, but I'm not totally sure I'd call it "selfless." I mean... he's making huge money from Cost Plus Drugs. :) But regardless, I'm all in for what he's doing, even if it makes him tons of money at the same time!
@realzyxtomatic true...Cost Olus is making money. That's what a business is supposed to do. What's important is that it's not an amount of money per customer that is filling the coffers...it's the amount of customers using the brand. The markup is under 20%. Unheard of un retail. Volume makes the difference and human decency makes it selfless.
@@realzyxtomatic when someone has the power to make more money but recognizes the greed demon and says no to it, that's commendable. Profit within reason... I like that a lot. I will add that I hope he's not using it to collect people's personal data to sell as kind of a side business though. Going to have to check it out. Great interview though!
Mark Cuban. You are what’s called HONEST! Thank you 🙏. As a teacher who taught 35 years in public schools. I find it refreshing to see people who are passionate about serving their community while also being well off. Thanks 🙏 you for sharing your experience and perspective with others. UBUNTU-A Person is a Person Through Other Persons!
we do NOT need any more ego-centered multi-bilionaires .. who squeeze out those middle class / poor kids who will never have a chance for their ideas to come to fruition ... the wealthy should be banned forever .. and taxed at 91% / 50% corp as a start ..
This is another great example of the talents and mastery of Jon Stewart, to properly balance depth, breadth and laughs in an interview on very important publicly relevant matters. I managed to get informed to a point of wanting to learn more about a couple topics, while also getting humorous engagement. And props to Cuban for flowing along perfectly to deliver insightful points in a very restricted time window for the topics discussed. This whole thing would be a 3 hour conversation normally among friends.
I've always liked Mark Cuban. Level headed, using his wealth but not abusing it, as far as I can see, which isn't that far. But he is open, willing to play along and has open conversations knowing he knows his stuff well enough to get out of any hairy situation. Sitting across from Jon Stewart, that is an admirable approach as Jon is smart AF! Loved the energy and the content!
I love Mark Cuban♥️ He’s the epitome of having it all and still be humble and wanting to help others! Money isn’t everything to him. Having a full life, not just money. Enjoying family, and giving back is what really counts♥️That’s an abundant life!
Sanity? This guy named his mega yacht after Ayn Rand...One of the worst people you could ever idolize. That's who he looks up to, a woman who preached selfishness and racism
Biden dropping out is the most positively disruptive thing ~ globally, in a long time. People, algos, markets, even MAGA... don't know what to do with it! This is the best summary of the AI~poli~techBro situation I have heard! And hints reasonably on the dangers and opportunities. MOAR THIS ❗️
@@tony_25or6to4 Right. That way healthcare from an employer is actually an added benefit instead of something you need to not go bankrupt due to routine medical procedures.
I noticed them using words you never hear on the TV. It's wonderfully refreshing to listen to people with a real vocabulary and the brain power to conduct a proper conversation.
Mr. Cuban. I didn’t like you before because I am a Lakers fan but I have tremendous admiration for you now, with the idea that spending time with your kids and future grandkids is most important to you, among other things. And especially your changed view toward Trump. I am enlightened by you, sir!
I don’t know if it’s direct algorithm meddling as much as it is engagement bait. Nothing keeps us on social media quite like the takes that make our blood boil.
@@doodlefrogo - That is the idea/goal. Keep you seething and hopefully you will choose not to skip ads. If you don't want to see things from Fox news, close your browser and clear cache. Reopen and search for CNN or MSNBC to restart the feeds into their algorithms. Works the same with music videos or movies. If you want heavy metal or hip hop. flush and restart.
Someone else was just sharing the same frustration with me. I knew it was algorithms but, tbh, I didn't know why Elon would want to do such a thing. Now, knowing that there's more of a global presence on there, I'm wondering if he's doing it to force people to engage in discussions and debates about their differing opinions and experiences(?) Idk. Maybe he's really just trying to force his right leaning views onto others but I hope that's not what's going on.
What Mark Cuban is doing with Cost Plus Drugs is amazing. Showing transparency and not pricing drugs ridiculously high. That's what health care should look like.