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The company was launched out of stealth last year.

The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs Company (MCCPDC) is a registered pharmaceutical wholesaler and purchases drugs directly from manufacturers, bypassing middlemen to lower the price of more than 100 medications, it said in a statement.

For example, the leukemia drug imatinib is priced at $47 a month on MCCPDC compared to the $9,657 retail price.

MCCPDC CEO Alex Oshmyansky reached out to Cuban with an idea for a low-cost generic drug company in a cold email. It was launched in January last year. They were motivated in part by “Pharma Bro” Martin Shrkeli’s outrage-producing price hike of the lifesaving drug Daraprim from $13.50 to $750 per tablet while Shrkeli was CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals. Cuban told Forbes last year the pricing for generic drugs was “ridiculous.” He said he decided to put his name on the company to “show capitalism can be compassionate and to send the message I am all in.” It’s not clear how much he had invested in the company.

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Reblog to save someone an entire paycheck, or more, on the pharmaceuticals they need.

alwaysatomicconniseur

Gods, I want this to be true so badly.

kaelio

It is true. Mark Cuban is doing this in part because he wants to run for President in 2024 if Biden doesn’t run again (Mark ran in 2020). He’s a Democrat and “I personally made medication affordable” will give him an immense edge. He’s far from perfect but this is a good thing he’s doing. Also he seems to genuinely believe this stuff, but either way, site’s up and operational and you can start any time.

mishafletcher

just so people understand what a big deal this is, i ran some fast price comparisons. goodrx is an app that offers discounts on medications for which you have to pay out of pocket, whether because your insurance doesn’t cover them or because you don’t have insurance. if you don’t have insurance, goodrx is often about as good as it gets, so i’m using their prices for my comparison.

please note that prices are location dependent on goodrx—it shows you the options at pharmacies near your location. i’m in pittsburgh, pa; if you’re in a different part of the country and you try this, you may get slightly (or wildly) different numbers.

fluoxetine is generic prozac. thirty 20mg capsules costs $12.80 at my cheapest local pharmacy. costplus has it for $3.90.

atorvastatin is generic lipitor. thirty 40mg tablets is $10.95 at my cheapest local pharmacy. costplus has it for $4.20.

omeprazole is generic prilosec. thirty 20mg capsules is $13.90 at the cheapest local pharmacy; $4.20 at costplus.

aripiprazole is generic abilify. thirty 10mg tablets is $17.73 at the cheapest local pharmacy (and $260.60 at the most expensive—and that’s with a discount, still, yikes); $6.00 at costplus.

lamotrigine xr is generic lamictal xr. thirty 25mg tablets is $36.59 at the cheapest local pharmacy; $8.40 at costplus.

maybe that doesn’t seem like a huge discount, but the goodrx prices change *all the time*—last time i used it to buy fluoxetine, which was in the last couple of years, it was $31. also, many people are on multiple medications, or have multiple people in a household taking multiple medications, and $5 off every prescription adds up real fast.

this is an objectively fantastic thing and a huge deal, and i hope they’re wildly successful.

prismatic-bell

HE HAS MY PRESCRIPTION ON HERE FOR $4.20.

THE CHEAPEST I CAN GET IT IN PERSON ANYWHERE IS $13 AND THE STANDARD PRICE FOR THE GENERIC IS $82.

TAMIFLU IS ON HERE FOR UNDER $4. IT’S AN ANTIVIRAL USED TO TREAT SEVERE CASES OF INFLUENZA AND REGULARLY COSTS OVER $100.

There is a medicine on here called Valcyte, it’s an HIV medication, he’s offering it for $100.20 which sounds outrageous (and I mean still kind of is but wait for it, wait for it) UNTIL YOU REALIZE ON GOODRX IT’S LISTED FOR $179 AS THE ABSOLUTE CHEAPEST PRICE I CAN FIND AND MY LOCAL WALGREENS SELLS IT FOR $1,009 FOR A MONTH’S SUPPLY.

This man is literally going to save lives. Jesus christ. I could cry.

ampervadasz

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adultwednesdayadams

Something Rotten!

ariaste

omg a musical song about COMPLAINING ABOUT WRITING My whole life I have been waiting for this. MY WHOLE LIFE.

once-upon-a-reblog

OH MY WORD

erebusodora-deactivated20190104

YES.

catdaggers

@tinydadman

bambis-baby

I REBLOG THIS EVERY SINGLE TIME IT COMES ON MY DASH AN I HAVE LOVED IT EVERY TIME

lunarlegend11

@queenof-starwars-and-otherthings @cooliogirl101 @blackkatmagic @shanatical @goaskalice137

burntcopper

…we also know that this actor and director’s entire direction for this was ‘CHANNEL TIM CURRY’

labelleizzy

^^^ this, holy CATS

systlin

(2) Because despite how "unfair" people think it is, painting your door bright pink, leaving your kids shit in the front lawn, and not mowing the grass lowers the curb appeal of your ENTIRE neighborhood. My house won't sell as well because people take one look at your yard and are like "i don't want to live here". The HOA rules are to keep everyone's house value *up* so you don't get stuck with a house you can't sell because your neighbor is busy putting up inflatable dragons.

Okay, but like

If your neighbor likes inflatable dragons or pink doors, it’s none of anyone else’s business, and if they don’t want to mow their lawn then honestly I am 100% on their side.

And sorry if this sounds harsh, but fuck property values anyway.

systlin

For real though, I don’t give a shit if my neighbors set a car on fire in their front yard or paint their whole house bright neon pink. Ain’t my yard, not my place to tell them what they can and can’t do.

And honestly I WISH more people WOULDN’T mow their lawns.

And high property values are BULLSHIT anyway.

tractorgoth

I would LOVE for there to be more community emergency funds to help your neighbors replace your roof and I really do appreciate that and want to make things look nice for my own neighbors.

But frankly a lot of the rules in HOA arrangements are classist garbage. You know who doesn’t have time to mow lawns? People with broken or no lawn mowers working double shifts. Single parents. Disabled people. Old people. You know who has dead cars sitting in their drives they’re hoping to fix one day? Poor people. People working side mechanic jobs to get by. You know who hoards shit and has tacky lawn junk? Old people who grew up with nothing who just want to have a little fun.

I may not like my neighbors’ plastic palm tree margartitaville but she’s 70 years old and she should be able to decorate her lawn however she damn well chooses. And I happen to like neighbors who brighten up my day with ridiculous house colors. And there’s no harm in kids being allowed to leave their bikes and toys out in their own freakin space. Yards are living spaces, not museums or public gardens.

systlin

Bingo.

“Oh, maybe that’s fine if you intend to stay there…”

I do. This is my home, not an investment property that I want to profit off of. What kind of person gets all worked up about kids leaving a few toys on the grass? Hell. I don’t care if the kids down the street leave their toys in MY yard for a day or so. They’ve got a standing invitation to eat raspberries off my bushes and watch my bees whenever they want.

wodneswynn-deactivated-deactiva

Also if the property values are lower then working stiffs like me might be able to actually, y'know, buy a home.

The professional-managerial caste and the petit bourgeoisie can choke. “It’ll lower the curb appeal” my entire ass

radicalcatgirlanarchy

HOAs don’t exist to help the people living in the neighborhood, they exist to keep the “wrong sort” of people from moving in.

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majorenglishesquire

The cap class to one of the training series I took at my last job was called “Orange County 101.” It was the only offsite training and we gathered at the Orange County History Museum to do a scavenger hunt and listen to lectures from different department representatives.

The woman who spoke on behalf of the Environmental division was by far the most informative and what she had to say about HOAs blew me away.

She said that every tree in the county is worth a base of $2,000. Trees only get more valuable because of what type of tree they are and their placement, but trees, for what they contribute to the environment in the county, the shade they produce that reduces energy bills in your home, and the material they’re made up of, are highly valuable on their own and when you plant a tree, you’re planting $2,000.

She also showed us pictures of Florida-landscaped houses versus typical HOA mandated landscaping. First of all, the division’s biggest issue with HOAs is that they often mandate that lawns be sodded in a type of grass that is not native to Florida, requires constant upkeep, is a strain on the water supply, and doesn’t do well in the shade of tress which, again, are vital to our environment and to reducing our energy bills. But HOAs will die on that hill every time: the hill sodded in expensive, dying grass. (I think it’s St. Augustine but don’t quote me on the name - I should know by now but all I know is it’s the thick-bladed gross kind that feels awful on your skin.)

The division has been invited into different neighborhoods over and over again to show individual citizens the benefits of Florida-native landscaping but they’re then cautioned to check with their HOA on what plants they’re allowed to have. The process usually stops there, when the HOA quashes all the hopes and plans of the individual homeowner by not just nixing their ideas, but also issuing a caution letter to let them know they’re being watched closely and on notice.

Orange County can help individual citizens when invited to do so, but it normally doesn’t go far, because people can’t or won’t fight their HOAs to plant energy-efficient, low-maintenance, Florida-native yards. This woman, who regularly represents an entire division of county government on environmental issues, point-blank said that they have little-to-no power in assisting residents with landscaping that’s better for their homes, environmentally and financially, because of HOAs. I will never forget her telling us that the best bet we had, in HOA neighborhoods, of helping save the environment in our state, was getting elected to the HOA board in our neighborhood, because the county has NO AUTHORITY over HOAs.

Now, I don’t know if this is how government works in just Florida, or just in the southern states. My mom lives in Arizona and that’s not how it is around her, at least. But how’s that for a conservative extreme, huh? Not just the home-rule of a charter county government, but home rule by HOA – HOAs that are set up by the corporations that throw houses up in Florida literally as if they’re coming off giant conveyor belts. Company after company setting up unreasonable, financially-restrictive home-rule regulations at the street level to be exclusive of people who so much as wish to grow fucking grass that’s native to their own state. And making sure that the people who say in charge are all about those closely-guarded personal freedoms. Until it comes to your freedom to have a certain door color. Or a certain kind of bush in your yard.

chillgamesh-the-swing

HOAs have literally always been either explicitly or functionally racist through the plausible deniability of classism. if you’re interested the keywords are restrictive covenants, white flight, and Levittowns. I can highly recommend the book Crabgrass Frontier by Kenneth Jackson for a look at American suburbanization and how these things got us to the mess we’re in today.

badjokesbyjeff

A man goes to a doctor and says, “Doc, you gotta check my leg. Something’s wrong. Just put your ear up to my thigh, you’ll hear it!”

The doctor cautiously placed his ear to the man’s thigh only to hear, “Gimme 20 bucks, I really need 20 bucks.”

“I’ve never seen or heard anything like this before, how long has this been going on.” The doctor asked.

“That’s nothing Doc. put your ear to my knee.”

The doctor put his ear to the man’s knee and heard it say “Man, I really need 10 bucks, just lend me 10 bucks!!”

“Sir, I really don’t know what to tell you. I’ve never seen anything like this.” The doctor was dumbfounded.

“Wait Doc, that’s not it. There’s more, just put your ear up to my ankle,” the man urged him.

The doctor did as the man said and was blown away to hear his ankle plead, “Please, I just need 5 bucks. Lend me 5 bucks please if you can.”

I have no idea what to tell you,“ the doctor said. "There’s nothing about it in my books,” he said as he frantically searched all his medical reference books.

“I can make a well-educated guess though. Based on life and all my previous experience I’d say your leg appears to be broke in three places.”

jonklassen2

gentlemanbones

dreadpiratecherry-deactivated20

was-fleur-prince-deactivated201

I have no idea what’s going on

pewterkat

Congrats, we have reached a period of time where there is a generation that does not remember the first memes.

ryanthedemiguy

Look, i’ve been on tumblr for nine fucking years and I don’t get this meme. I remember seeing it at some point, but have no clue what it means.

nerdfighterwhatevernumbers

because this meme is pre tumblr and pre-youtube and is about 17 years old, almost twice as long as you’ve been on tumblr the ancient depths of albinoblacksheep will never die

meddlsome

what is wrong with americans

noping-out-deactivated20241117

Teachers are like "Disability accommodations? Never heard of 'em."

noping-out-deactivated20241117

You can't hear the video? Sucks to be you.

noping-out-deactivated20241117

You can't see the materials? So sad, too bad.

idk-man-whatever

Yeah uh this is illegal and we fucking don't/can't do this.

cripplepunk

Tell that to my entire 12 years of schooling. You don't know better than disabled folk about our own experience.

Plus, not everywhere is where ever you live.

I'm an autistic wheelchair user with language processing issues. (At the time I'm talking about though I did not use a wheelchair and was unaware of any physical disability)

When I was the age to start high school I lived in New Zealand. My mum had to go to the Human Rights Board of the country to force the only school in the area to even let me enroll, as they initially refused me bc ... autistic.

When I finally did start I got an IEP set up. One of the things I could do was go to the library when I was overwhelmed. The first time I did this it ended with the teacher who was doing the overwhelming blocking my way through the door and putting me in a headlock. I managed to bite her arm to get her off me.

I was expelled, and had to be homeschooled for two years before we moved to australia where I started a new school and came across a new host of access issues.

But nope they defs can't do that bc its illegal or whatever

nonbinary-axolotl

I’ve heard a ton of stories about teachers ripping out kids’ hearing aids because they thought they were headphones (and of course tearing them out of a kid’s ear is the right way to handle the situation even if they WERE headphones right?)

Another story I found was about a kid who had an insulin pump whose teacher told them that if it kept making noise, they were going to get kicked out of class for being a disruption. They weren’t allowed to eat in class to get their blood sugar up so it would stop alerting.

I’ve met a person who has a service dog and was essentially unable to bring him to school because EVERYONE, including the teacher, would get too distracted by the “cute little puppy” and be unable to actually do anything.

My high school had practically no wheelchair access. The only way to get between the two floors was to go outside and up a steep ramp to go back inside on the other floor. The doors into the school were kept locked at all times. Passing periods were only 5 minutes long and most teachers penalized being late.

In elementary school I wasn’t allowed to keep my rescue inhaler on my person. If I started to have an asthma attack, I was expected to walk all the way to the office, wait for the nurse (who was oftentimes not there), and ask for my inhaler to use it. All while having an asthma attack.

My friend in high school had auditory processing issues. She would ask for captions to be put on videos we were watching, and a lot of teachers didn’t know how to enable them, so they wouldn’t turn them on. Too bad so sad, but at least she wasn’t deaf.

It doesn’t fucking matter if something is illegal or not, people are still going to be ableist assholes and likely not even face any punishment for it because “Disabled people are too demanding” is considered a legitimate excuse.

advice-animal

This is so out of the norm parenting these days. She gained so much respect from me.

marauders4evr

So imagine you’re a gay top, right, and you’re out on a date with your partner, just having a fun time, and you’re about to head home, when you spot this kid passed out on the streets, your partner wants to help him, but you’re obviously a little worried that you could face severe repercussions if you help this random kid, then you realize that he could be a potential ally, so the two of you drag him out of the streets and into a safe space, and when he wakes up, he confesses that he’s homeless, so you and your partner go through the process of adopting him, you two take him home, you two give him a good meal, you two start to teach him some philosophies in life, he slowly grows up, you two help him through his bad dreams, you two help him through his bad memories, you two play games with him, he completely roasts you at an eating contest, he’s extremely active, you’re always on the move, you’re walking everywhere, like literally walking all the time, like so much walking, and you’re there for him and then all of a sudden, his childhood friend shows up on your doorstep and is like, “Your adopted son is really the king.” and then he falls in love with a woman in like 2.55 minutes which is definitely not something you two taught him how to do, so you’re confused, and the weather gets really weird, and you’re even more confused and in the end, all you really want to know is WHO’S THE MONKEY and by the time you’re dressing in drag and doing the hula, you’ve realized that maybe it’s better if you just don’t worry about it…

aki-anyway

When someone says these days sexism and misogyny don’t exist anymore show them this.

lagonegirl

white people using their privilege to educate, a concept!

creekfiend

Having seen some births now i can say that dog birth is amazing cos they just slip n slide out one after the other like a little conveyor belt. And theyre so little and unformed. And then UNGULATE BIRTHS ... are amazing for the opposite reason which is that 10mins after being born they are filing their taxes. Unless they are goats, in which case they are committing tax fraud instead

creekfiend

Goats are what is called a precocial species, which means that shortly after birth they are able to do many thimgs on their own, such as standing, walking, eating, and embezzlement