Business Insider December 6, 2017
- CVS Health and Aetna’s $69 billion merger would create an entirely new healthcare company, one that contains an insurer, pharmacy, and a company that negotiates prescription drug costs, among other businesses.
- The deal would put a lot more of the healthcare system under CVS’s oversight and change the way people access their healthcare.
- It might mean, for instance, that a lot more healthcare happens outside a traditional doctor’s office.
CVS Health‘s $69 billion merger with the health insurer Aetna could put a lot more of the healthcare system all under one roof.
The combined companies, which altogether include a health insurance business, retail pharmacies, and a company that negotiates prescription drug prices with drugmakers called a...
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