{"id":20936,"date":"2026-01-04T15:48:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T15:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20936"},"modified":"2026-01-04T15:48:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T15:48:48","slug":"mark-cuban-says-we-could-pay-off-the-national-debt-if-insurers-were-fined-100-every-time-they-over-billed-or-denied-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20936","title":{"rendered":"Mark Cuban Says We Could Pay Off The National Debt If Insurers Were Fined $100 Every Time They Over-Billed Or Denied Care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Mark Cuban<\/strong>&nbsp;is taking aim at the U.S. healthcare system, arguing that widespread billing abuse by insurers and providers could be a major source of federal revenue\u2013if only they were held accountable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf we fined insurers and providers $100 every time they over-billed, incorrectly denied care or misrepresented any amount of patient out of pocket, we could&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/education\/25\/07\/46676015\/want-to-help-pay-off-37-trillion-national-debt-government-accepts-venmo-paypal?nid=49671956&amp;utm_campaign=partner_feed&amp;utm_content=site&amp;utm_medium=partner_feed&amp;utm_source=yahooFinance\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pay off the national debt<\/a>,\u201d the billionaire entrepreneur&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mcuban\/status\/2003918842938986526\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">posted on X<\/a>&nbsp;last week.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/finance\/news\/mark-cuban-says-could-pay-173107627.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/finance\/news\/mark-cuban-says-could-pay-173107627.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mark Cuban is taking aim at the U.S. healthcare system, arguing that widespread billing abuse by insurers and providers could be a major source of federal revenue\u2013if only they were held accountable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we fined insurers and providers $100 every time they over-billed, incorrectly denied care or misrepresented any amount of patient out of pocket, we could pay off the national debt,\u201d the billionaire entrepreneur posted on X last week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/finance\/news\/mark-cuban-says-could-pay-173107627.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7,278,334,80,73,22,1712,10],"class_list":["post-20936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-debt","tag-deficit","tag-health-insurance","tag-health-system","tag-healthcare","tag-insurance","tag-mark-cuban","tag-national-debt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20937,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20936\/revisions\/20937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}