Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban<\/strong> has publicly endorsed the proposed Break Up Big Medicine Act<\/strong>, legislation aimed at limiting vertical integration across the U.S. healthcare industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The bill, introduced in February by Sens. Elizabeth Warren<\/strong> and Josh Hawley<\/strong>, would prohibit companies from owning both a health insurer or pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) and healthcare providers or management services organizations. The legislation also seeks to prevent prescription drug or medical device wholesalers from owning provider organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a March 24 post on X, the Cuban founder of Cost Plus Drugs<\/strong> argued that employers are struggling under rising healthcare costs driven largely by large vertically integrated insurance companies. He urged the public to contact lawmakers in support of the proposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Cuban, large insurers use extensive subsidiary networks to increase costs and exploit system inefficiencies, stating that breaking up major insurers would help reduce healthcare spending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In additional posts later in March, Cuban called on Sen. Bernie Sanders<\/strong> to support the bill, arguing that structural reform is necessary before broader healthcare models, including single-payer systems, can become viable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The legislation comes amid growing scrutiny of UnitedHealth Group<\/strong>, the nation\u2019s largest healthcare company. Reports have indicated the organization operates nearly 2,700 subsidiaries, though many were not disclosed in certain 2025 SEC filings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During congressional testimony in January, UnitedHealth CEO Stephen Hemsley<\/strong> defended the company\u2019s structure, stating that integration improves care delivery and overall value within the healthcare system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The proposal reflects ongoing bipartisan debate over consolidation in healthcare and whether separating insurers from provider operations could improve transparency, competition, and affordability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Source:<\/strong> Becker\u2019s Hospital Review Elizabeth Casolo and Mark Cuban back a bill to break up vertically integrated insurers<\/em> (2026).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban has publicly endorsed the proposed Break Up Big Medicine Act, legislation aimed at limiting vertical integration across the U.S. healthcare industry. The bill, introduced in February by Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Josh Hawley, would prohibit companies from owning both a health insurer or pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) and healthcare providers or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/golivexlive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/golivexlive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/golivexlive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/golivexlive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/golivexlive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/golivexlive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1164,"href":"https:\/\/golivexlive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions\/1164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/golivexlive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/golivexlive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/golivexlive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/golivexlive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Cuban highlights employer cost pressures<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Push toward broader healthcare reform<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Scrutiny of vertically integrated insurers<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n