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Mark Cuban Outlines Plan to Lower Rare Disease Drug Costs

The Cost Plus Drugs cofounder proposes five measures targeting price transparency and middlemen to reduce manufacturing costs for custom therapies.

2 publishers · 2 articles · first seen 21 Oct 2026 · updated 2h ago

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How the odds moved · Will Mark Cuban win the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination?
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The story so far

2 publishers have covered this in 2 articles since 21 Oct 2026. Fortune published first, on 21 October at 07:15 UTC; STAT followed 1h 15m later. The most recent article, from STAT, appeared on 21 October at 08:30 UTC.

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  • Will Mark Cuban win the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination? — the market puts it at 0%, with $2k traded in the last 24 hours, closing 8 Nov 2028. The market resolves to "Yes" if Mark Cuban wins and accepts the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, as confirmed by a consensus of official Democratic Party sources. It resolves to "No" in all other cases, including if he loses the nomination or if another candidate replaces him before election day.
  • Mark Cuban — the market puts it at 1%, with $2k traded in the last 24 hours, closing 7 Nov 2028. The outcome is Yes if Mark Cuban wins and accepts the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 2028. The outcome is No if he does not meet this condition. Readers often mistake the linked news story about drug costs for the resolution criteria, but only his nomination status matters.
  • Mark Cuban — the market puts it at 7%, closing 7 Nov 2028. The outcome is Yes if Mark Cuban announces a run for the 2028 U.S. Presidency between the issuance date and November 7, 2028. The outcome is No if he does not make such an announcement within that specific timeframe. Readers often mistake this market as resolving based on his current business activities or unrelated political statements rather than a formal presidential candidacy announcement.

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Sources

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  1. STAT+: Mark Cuban wants to crack open the market for rare disease treatments STAT
  2. Billionaire Mark Cuban’s 5-step plan to make healthcare affordable targets drug middlemen’s ‘contractual terrorism’ Fortune

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