Why Healthcare is So Expensive in America

I missed out on Uber. Bill literally in introduced me to Travis who had a company before Uber and I helped him sell that company and he came to me with Uber and like Bill with Google, I waited and overnegotiated and Travis just walked and the rest is history. >> Yes. Well, you did. Okay.

>> Well, so have you. Yeah. So have you. >> So So um since I delayed to talk about healthcare innovation, let's jump right in. Sure. So, you've done all those things he just listed. You could just sail off and live on an island or you could just watch the Mavericks. And you made this decision to lean not in a

little bit, lean in a lot with cost plus drugs. What's the origin story? How did this like how did this come to be something Mark Cuban is is and and it looks like you're leaving other things to do >> to do this? Yeah. And so back um in 2017 16 when the Republicans were talking

about replacing the ACA living in Texas, I had people come to me, well you come up with an idea to replace it. And so I started digging into healthcare like you talked about learning ancillary things that don't have an immediate benefit. I'm just insanely curious when it comes to business type stuff. And so I started

digging in. Then I got a cold email from a Dr. for Alex Ashmayanssky and he said that he wanted to build a compounding pharmacy that manufactured specialty injectable specialty generics that are on short supply which included pediatric cancer drugs ptocin all these drugs that you would never think would go in short supply particularly since they're

generic and I was like that's really interesting but that's not big enough and it was right around the time the farmer bro Martin Skrey was going to jail and I'm like what the hell happened here and so Alex and I started started talking and it became really obvious to me that the missing link in healthcare