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Mark Cuban's Rx Disruption: Humana Deal, Generics Push, & Obamacare Blast

Mark Cuban's Rx Disruption: Humana Deal, Generics Push, & Obamacare Blast

Update: 2025-12-09
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Mark Cuban has spent the past few days doing what has quietly become his defining late career move, turning from Shark Tank showman into full blown healthcare disruptor in chief. At the Forbes Healthcare Summit, reported by Forbes and Bloomberg and summarized by Fierce Healthcare and BenefitsPro, he all but confirmed that his Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company is working with Humana and its CenterWell division on a direct to employer pharmacy model designed to **bypass traditional pharmacy benefit manager middlemen** and simplify how employers buy drugs. He framed it as treating the whole person plus their wallet and praised Humana for trying to strip out complexity, a line that has the potential to become a key biographical beat if this partnership matures into a national scale alternative to the current pharmacy benefit system.

At almost the same time, Cost Plus Drugs announced with GraphiteRx, via an Access Newswire release carried by Morningstar, that they are deepening their partnership to power the Cost Plus Marketplace for Businesses. The move expands a platform that already serves providers reaching over 40 million patients a year and promises savings of more than 50 percent on many medications, signaling that Cuban is steadily building a parallel, transparent drug supply chain aimed at hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies rather than just individual consumers.

On the policy front, Reuters reporting cited by eMarketer and Pharmaceutical Commerce says Cuban has urged the Trump administration to waive FDA generic drug approval fees, explicitly to accelerate US based manufacturing tied to Cost Plus Drugs plans to expand its own production footprint. He has also, according to Benzinga, used X to blast the current state of Obamacare as garbage today not because the original law failed, he says, but because insurers and corporations have had 15 years to learn how to game it and abuse independent doctors and pharmacies. In parallel, coverage from Traders Union and Shark Tank Blog recounts a recent Cuban proposal for a direct pay, cash price model for military pharmacies that would cut PBM fees and potentially become a template for other government systems, though those write ups blend news with some interpretive color and should be treated as partly speculative about long term impact. Across social and business media, from Benzinga to niche Shark Tank blogs, the through line of the latest Cuban mentions is unmistakable: he is betting his legacy on blowing up opaque drug pricing, one partnership, one presidential nudge, and one viral post at a time.

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Mark Cuban's Rx Disruption: Humana Deal, Generics Push, & Obamacare Blast

Mark Cuban's Rx Disruption: Humana Deal, Generics Push, & Obamacare Blast

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