{"id":421031,"date":"2026-08-30T13:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T13:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/421031\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T13:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T13:06:11","slug":"james-talarico-visits-fort-worth-to-discuss-healthcare-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/421031\/","title":{"rendered":"James Talarico visits Fort Worth to discuss healthcare plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_9495.jpeg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"James Talarico talks with Mark Cuban about healthcare prices, moderated by Jessica Tarlov at the Ridglea Theater on Saturday.\" alt=\"James Talarico talks with Mark Cuban about healthcare prices, moderated by Jessica Tarlov at the Ridglea Theater on Saturday.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        James Talarico talks with Mark Cuban about healthcare prices, moderated by Jessica Tarlov at the Ridglea Theater on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>                Maven Navarro<\/p>\n<p>While on a 25-mile campaign walk from Taylor, Texas, to Round Rock, Texas, James Talarico got fatigued and nauseous and went to the emergency room the next morning. There he was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. When Talarico picked up his 30-day supply of insulin, he said it cost him $684.<\/p>\n<p>Talarico\u2019s diagnosis sparked ideas for lowering health-care costs in Texas. The Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate discussed his plans with businessman Mark Cuban to a crowd of over 900 people at the Ridglea Theater on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c A devastating diagnosis shouldn\u2019t mean a devastating invoice,\u201d Talarico said.<\/p>\n<p>Talarico\u2019s plan involves breaking up large healthcare companies, allowing people to shop around for medication and lowering prescription drug prices.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Cuban founded Cost Plus Drugs, a website created to sell generic medication at a lower price than most large pharmacies.<\/p>\n<p>Cuban said he decided to partner with Talarico after Talarico agreed to sponsor the bipartisan Break Up Big Medicine Bill, that aims to lower prescription drug prices by preventing prescription drug wholesalers from owning or controlling medical provider organizations<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe in the free market, but this is not a free market. This is coverage by cartel,\u201d Talarico said of the current pharmaceutical market in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Talarico, who is a Presbyterian seminarian, has spent much of his campaign sharing his Christian faith. He said that in the Bible, Jesus spent most of his time healing others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is what we are called to do \u2014 ensure that our neighbors have the care that they need,\u201d Talarico said. \u201cThat is going to be the end result of this plan and the other healthcare policies that we\u2019re going to fight for in Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published August 29, 2026 at 8:22 PM.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/315672317\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/STAFF_Maven_Navarro.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Maven Navarro\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/315672317\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maven Navarro<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Maven Navarro is a local news reporter at the Star-Telegram. She covers Fort Worth and Tarrant County.\u00a0\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Talarico talks with Mark Cuban about healthcare prices, moderated by Jessica Tarlov at the Ridglea Theater on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-421031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}