Billionaire Mavericks owner Mark Cuban recently made a splash into the world of prescription drugs. The entrepreneur launched a platform that allows Americans to access medicine more directly from manufacturers — no insurance plan or healthcare middlemen required. The result will be more affordable treatments and therapies for patients.
Cheers to that. Drug costs have been ballooning for decades. Since 2000, expenditures on prescription drugs have nearly tripled in the U.S. The question is why? To the chagrin of keyboard warriors on Twitter, the problem isn’t as simple as placing the blame on “greedy” corporations.
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