This is the guy that promised 1000% discounts on drugs.

You know they started with 83% in there and then orange man insisted they change the "8" to a "9".

I haven't heard of this but he must be pretty proud of it, the page title is literally, "Homepage of Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs", his name is in the logo, and the picture is on the front page.

It's a much different service that Costplus

Costplus manufactures and sells drugs at a small markup over manufacturing cost.

TrumpRX appears to be more of a central clearinghouse where drug makers can offer discounts to consumers. And at least so far, they seem to be the same discounts that they already offer, when you look up a drug on the site, it redirects you to the manufacturer's website.

Maybe it's useful for people without insurance that don't know how to search look for discount programs to help them buy drugs and maybe some manufacturers will offer discounts on the site that aren't available otherwise, but it's not a competitor to Cuban's site.

Incidentally, it was GOP who branded the Affordable Care Act as Obamacare in an effort to make it seem bad. Obama never asked for or wanted that name, although he later accepted it.

Trump, as we know, has an insatiable need for recognition and attempts to put his name on everything he can.

If history is any guide: tan suits (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_tan_suit_controve...), eating arugula and dijon mustard (https://theweek.com/speedreads/704818/big-controversy-point-...), terrorist fist jabs (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/terrorist_fist_jab), and putting feet on the Oval Office desk (https://wtop.com/news/2013/09/obama-and-the-foot-on-desk-con...).

They aren't operating in good faith.

Cute.

‘If’, not ‘when’.

The opened borders, naive international policies, relegation of sovereignty to international organisations, pie-in-the-sky social plans, weird flags being hoisted at embassies, etcetera.

The prices are exactly the same!

But there are no generics available!! Ahhh, yesss. /cackle

Link: https://bsky.app/profile/tom.medsky.social/post/3me5npjbcms2...

How could the Trump family then directly benefit from it?

That's not actually what's happening here.

They're the same self-pay deals the companies offer to the public already.

Wejovy, for example: https://www.novocare.com/content/dam/novonordisk/novocare/re...

(Or you can go through a compounding pharmacy for even cheaper. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/hims-hers-launch-of-compou...)

Assuming there's nothing wrong with it technically (scam, misleading, mishandling, whatever), then yeah, nothing wrong your take. It's just the obvious meta-problems: His name being on it creates trust issues and reluctance (and inversely: blind trust on the other side). Even just regarding image and principles: Most people justifiably hate the idea of a prideful asshole putting his name front and center on a government service - they want the comport of a president to be the opposite of a cartoonish car salesman. They might tolerate it if the guy in question doesn't cultivate that image (e.g. Obamacare), but even then, they don't want the guy to officially name it that (e.g. ACA) because that would again contribute to the image of petty self-advertisement. Of course this "normal" human psychology gets short-circuited with enough hate ("I don't like that behavior. Oh wait, my enemies also don't like? Now I like it.").

A step closer to Medicare for all?

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Another scam? Yes

> The new intellectual dark ages.

There was a report this week that the current admin was destroying medical research, so yes there does seem to be a new intellectual dark age incoming.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/02/trump-admin-is-destro...