Can Mark Cuban Deliver Cheaper RX‪?‬ Patients Rising Podcast

A shark has entered the prescription drug waters. Entrepreneur and ABC Shark Tank investor Mark Cuban founded the ‘Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company’ which aims to slash prices, improve transparency, and provide greater convenience to patients. How? It cuts out the middlemen, pharmacy benefit managers, from the supply chain. 
Plus, as ALS Awareness Month continues, field correspondent Kate Pecora speaks with Giulia, who lost her boyfriend to ALS, about his journey fighting the disease and who received access to a new treatment through compassionate use. And what does the formula supply shortage mean for the rare disease community? Terry and Bob discuss.
Hosts: 
Terry Wilcox, Executive Director, Patients Rising
Dr. Robert Goldberg, “Dr. Bob,” Co-Founder and Vice President of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest
Kate Pecora, Field Correspondent
Guest: 
Giulia Diguglielmo, ALS Advocate 
Links: 
Mark Cuban enters online prescription market 'nibbling at the edge of transparency'
Abbott says deal reached to restart baby formula plant | The Hill
Cost Plus Drugs
ALS Awareness Month: How our fight continues | The ALS Association
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