Businessman Mark Cuban is making it his “mission” to shake up U.S. health care.

Cuban is known for owning the Dallas Mavericks and for his role as an angel investor on the ABC reality TV show “Shark Tank.”

He hasn’t shied away from the political arena as a prominent critic of President Trump. But Cuban says he has no interest in running for higher office, opting instead to disrupt health care.

“If I could change health care in this country, that would be amazing,” Cuban said in an interview for The Hill’s "Health Next Summit."

For Cuban, that starts with his company Cost Plus Drugs, which launched in 2022 with the goal of pharmacies leapfrogging middleman wholesalers.

“I’m not saying I’m going to be able to pull it off, but I know we’ve had a significant impact with CostPlusDrugs.com, and I think getting there and focusing on that and just changing people’s lives for the better on the health care side, that’s my mission,” he said.

Cuban said the company carries more than 2,500 medications and that when customers type in the name of a medication they immediately see its actual cost followed by the markup, which is always 15 percent. The businessman said the company’s transparency is what sets it apart from its competitors, which include........

© The Hill