Billionaire Mark Cuban Says If We Fined Insurance Companies and Providers $100 E

Mark Cuban has a proposal for the U.S. healthcare system that comes with the satisfying simplicity of a parking ticket: Make a mistake, pay $100.

On Dec. 24, 2025, the Cost Plus Drugs co-founder wrote on X that insurers and providers should face a $100 fine every time they overbill, incorrectly deny care, or misrepresent a patient's out-of-pocket costs.

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"If 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," Cuban wrote in a post.

The math behind paying off the debt is, naturally, more of a megaphone than a calculator. But the frustration behind it has plenty of numbers backing it up.

Total U.S. public debt has

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