CVS-Aetna? Expect more strange bedfellows as competition from Amazon grows
by David Pierson, Los Angeles Times
Oct 27, 2017
2 minutes
If CVS Health's reported $66 billion bid to acquire health insurer Aetna is approved, it could give the retail pharmacy chain an infusion of customers through Aetna's members and more leverage when it negotiates drug prices.
But beyond that, the tie-up could help prepare the two companies for what analysts believe will be the industry-rattling arrival of Amazon into the pharmacy business.
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