Mark Cuban has been chiding self-insured employers for a while, saying that they have more power to change healthcare than any politician. One has to only look at his tweets to know that he has asked employers to stop letting insurance companies and pharmacy benefit managers dictate what they can offer to employees. He has exhorted them to “demand transparency and pay cash prices [for drugs] when it’s cheaper.”

He has charged employers of being complicit

It was a theme that he returned to in his main stage appearance at the recently concluded HLTH conference that draws many prominent healthcare executives to Las Vegas annually.

It’s important to note that 154 million Americans get health insurance from their employers and, of them, 63% are covered by self-insured employers. These ar

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