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Mark Cuban has been making waves on multiple fronts in the past week blending business innovation with headline-grabbing public commentary and policy advocacy. The single most significant development involves Cuban confirming at the HLTH 2025 conference in Las Vegas that his company Cost Plus Drugs is entering into a partnership with the TrumpRx platform created by former President Trump. This collaboration aims to radically increase transparency and competition in prescription drug pricing by allowing TrumpRx to pull in real-time price data from Cost Plus Drugs and other direct-to-consumer pharmacies essentially creating a prescription drug search engine for Americans. Cuban called the move a potential game-changer for patient access and affordability emphasizing that as Cost Plus volume increases so do the savings for consumers. He lauded the TrumpRx team for genuinely trying to tackle prescription costs even as he acknowledged the effort as only a “good start” noting entrenched interests in pharmacy benefit managers remain a major obstacle according to reports from HLTH 2025 and Fierce Healthcare.

Cuban’s anti-PBM rhetoric intensified this week with a high-profile keynote at HLTH and in Senate testimony where he denounced PBMs drug wholesalers and manufacturers as middlemen inflating medication costs and draining hundreds of billions from patients insurers and independent pharmacies. He reiterated his frustration with what he dubs a rigged pricing system and said his push for radical transparency will include posting full health provider contracts online—an unprecedented move he believes is vital for lasting reform. BenefitsPRO highlighted this planned disclosure as a signal he intends to disrupt not just pharmacy pricing but the entire health care value chain.

On Capitol Hill Cuban’s appearance before the Senate Aging Committee further cemented his influence in health policy. He warned senators that uncertainty surrounding the potential expiration of Obamacare subsidies is leaving Americans “terrified” about looming spikes in health premiums particularly for older adults and small businesses. Cuban was blunt that basic fairness requires showing patients actual costs and offering real options without endless red tape as covered by the Washington Examiner and televised live by PBS NewsHour.

On social media Cuban drew attention to the inequity of taxpayers easily backing loans for failed businesses or college dropouts but offering only “thoughts and prayers” when families face medical debt. He advocated for publicly backed financing for health expenses arguing this would align with other forms of social support as reported by Benzinga.

Meanwhile Cuban waded into the billionaire tax debate on BlueSky arguing to Business Insider that eliminating billionaires would crash stock markets and hurt average savers. While reaffirming his support for a windfall tax on $1 billion-plus annual incomes he cautioned that seizing billionaire wealth would barely dent federal deficits and could trigger an economic depression.

Rounding out this eventful week Cuban’s energetic TV and online presences—highlighted in a lengthy CNBC interview—show his dedication to accountability and continued disruption in health care while demonstrating his willingness to work in bipartisan fashion when it promises tangible savings for American patients.

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