Alan Stroup News, Business, Internet
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Cigna's 67 billion bid for pharmacy benefits Manager Express scripts could give the insurer better tools to manage patient health care and more clout to negotiate lower prices with drug makers. But health economists caution that the main beneficiaries could be the shareholders rather than patients. In some sense, this was inevitable. With the other major insurance companies being integrated with a PBM, Sigma doesn't want to be at a competitive disadvantage, said Sam Richardson, health economists at Boston College. Health economists predicted more consolidation after Aetna and CVS announced plans to merge last year. The prospect of Amazon entering the pharmaceutical market and the joint pledge from Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett and J. P. Morgan Chase chief Jamie Diamond to find ways to drive down healthcare costs provide an imperative for players across the country to contain costs and improve the quality of care patients receive
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