wonder how the law looks at an insurance company using it's own pharmaciesCloser to a single payer system.
Triple threat, minus medicine, surgery, and nursing.
$69 billion is a decent amount of money.
Odd how Citizens are being put through the financial wringer while these large health systems are rolling in the dough. Hmmm...
If CVS runs healthcare the way it runs its pharmacies, we’re all going to die.
CVS is a terrible store. Walgreens is far superior. For them to take over Aetna...if they were my insurer, I’d be looking to abandon ship.
wonder how the law looks at an insurance company using it's own pharmaciesIt seems like an anti-trust issue to me.
AWWW no!! I have Aetna and am satisfied. The dealings of relatives with CVS have not been satisfactory.
It should be blocked, or else the CVS retail-store division separated out as a separate independent company.
The vertical integration would be too much in a set of industries with of rapidly shrinking major competitors.
In addition to its retail operations, it is one of the largest wholesale prescription drug distributors/prescription benefit managers (services the insurance companies for their drug plans (not limited to distribution/benefit management as relates to drugs supplied through CVS-retail stores) and one of the few major national distributors of “specialty” drugs - extremely high priced drugs.
And now an insurer as well? I’d say no.
Sure hope President Trump and the Justice Department veto this acquisition. We do not need a super sized integrated health care industry company. More consolidation means far less competition, plus more control over every aspect of our personal health care.
no.
i hope the feds block this.
too much consolidation.
the federal government should ENCOURAGE competition.
Aetna and CVS? Wow, my mother in law was a secretary at Aetna’s Headquarters in Hartford until she retired in 1999. Back on the 80s and 90s, they were helping Hartford. It should not be allowed. What next, Walgreens and Humana? Rite Aid and MetLife?