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Mark Cuban has spent the past few days doing what he loves most, mixing hard policy moves with headline-grabbing showmanship. At the Forbes Health Care Conference, multiple outlets including Bloomberg and Digital Health News report that he and Humana CEO Jim Rechtin publicly teased a potential pharmacy partnership between Humana’s CenterWell pharmacy arm and his Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs Company. The talks focus on direct to employer programs that would bypass traditional pharmacy benefit managers, the middlemen he has been loudly attacking for opaque pricing and GLP 1 drug markups. If this deal gets formalized, it could become one of the more consequential chapters in his post Mavericks biography, placing him as a central antagonist to the dominant PBMs and a structural reformer in the drug supply chain.

In parallel, pharma trade outlets like Fierce Pharma and Pharmaceutical Commerce report that Cuban has been pressing the Trump administration to waive hundreds of thousands of dollars in FDA generic drug approval fees so Cost Plus can manufacture generics in the United States, especially for high cost and shortage drugs. Marketing industry coverage from MM and M frames this as both a policy play and a brand statement, signaling that Cuban wants Cost Plus embedded not just as a discount pharmacy but as an end to end generic manufacturer. If successful, this push could significantly deepen his long term legacy in healthcare beyond the current mail order model.

On the tech culture front, AOL reports that Cuban has given Sora 2 users permission to deepfake his likeness, with one big string attached every AI video must carry a plugged in ad for his low cost pharmacy. It is a very on brand combination of stunt, self deprecation, and ruthless marketing, turning deepfake anxiety into an always on commercial for Cost Plus Drugs.

Meanwhile, an interview resurfaced in global tech press like the Times of India, where Cuban cheerfully admits his college chain letter was flat out a scam and describes how those envelopes of fifty dollar bills helped pay for his junior year. That story, retold now, functions as biographical color and a reminder that in his own narrative, the line between hustle and scandal has always been negotiable as long as everyone gets paid back.

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