The pills millions of Americans take every day often come from overseas factories most of us will never see – many with a troubling track record of safety and oversight.
It’s a risk we’ve been investigating for years. Now, as calls for reform grow louder, billionaire Mark Cuban is trying to disrupt a system he said is putting patients in danger. We went inside his Dallas operation to see what’s working – and what’s still standing in the way.
Mark Cuban made his name and his fortune in technology and sports. Now, he’s betting on something less glamorous: generic drugs, made on U.S. soil.
Tucked away in an urban art district of Dallas, he walked us down the block where his company is making America’s medicines, not because it’s easy, and not because it’s wildly profitable, but because he believes the system Americans rely on for medicine has become too opaque, too distorted and too comfortable with the cheapest possible answer.
Cuban built Cost Plus Drugs, a company he said is designed to strip out middlemen, show customers the actual price and increasingly make more medicine here in America.
“We manufacture generic sterile injectables right now, right down the street, and we’ve got the ability to be able to manufacture generic tablets,” said Cuban.
We got a look inside the plant, which Cuban told us he wants to be so transparent that he will hang cameras so customers can watch their drugs being made.
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