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Nash Riggins

Healthcare Costs Already Make Even the Wealthiest Americans Enraged. Now AI Is Adding $1 Billion to Hospital Bills.

Most of us live on an entirely different planet than billionaires do. We’re in the middle of a cost of living crisis, and luxuries are getting few and far between. But there’s at least one thing we’ve all got in common with the ultra-rich, and that’s increasing healthcare costs. Just ask Mark Cuban.

The billionaire entrepreneur has spent most of 2026 complaining about spiralling healthcare costs, predatory insurance practices, and intentional opacity. The way Cuban sees it, healthcare is one of the only things Americans have to buy without knowing the price until the invoice arrives. That certainly puts many of us between a rock and a hard place.

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