A deal tonight that touches the live of every single American Health care. Anthem says its buying rival cigna for 250 million. The deal comes just weeks after aetna says it wants to buy humana quickly altering the landscape to five major insurance carriers to just three, assuming the announced deals get regulatory approval. Both anthem and cigna saw their shares lower in trading. The wave of consolidation is raising a number of questions about the power of these companies, competition and costs per patient. Reporter anthem and cigna say together theyll be able to cut out more than 2 billion in overhead costs and ultimately that will be good for consumers. It will improve our ability to serve customers across commercial medicaid medicare and International Markets and create greater efficiencies and affordability for our customers. Reporter the sheer scale of the 54 billion merger will attract regulatory scrutiny. The combined company will have more than 50 million members, covering 1 in
A deal tonight that touches the live of every single American Health care. Anthem says its buying rival cigna for 250 million. The deal comes just weeks after aetna says it wants to buy humana quickly altering the landscape to five major insurance carriers to just three, assuming the announced deals get regulatory approval. Both anthem and cigna saw their shares lower in trading. The wave of consolidation is raising a number of questions about the power of these companies, competition and costs per patient. Reporter anthem and cigna say together theyll be able to cut out more than 2 billion in overhead costs and ultimately that will be good for consumers. It will improve our ability to serve customers across commercial medicaid medicare and International Markets and create greater efficiencies and affordability for our customers. Reporter the sheer scale of the 54 billion merger will attract regulatory scrutiny. The combined company will have more than 50 million members, covering 1 in
A deal tonight that touches the live of every single American Health care. Anthem says its buying rival cigna for 250 million. The deal comes just weeks after aetna says it wants to buy humana quickly altering the landscape to five major insurance carriers to just three, assuming the announced deals get regulatory approval. Both anthem and cigna saw their shares lower in trading. The wave of consolidation is raising a number of questions about the power of these companies, competition and costs per patient. Reporter anthem and cigna say together theyll be able to cut out more than 2 billion in overhead costs and ultimately that will be good for consumers. It will improve our ability to serve customers across commercial medicaid medicare and International Markets and create greater efficiencies and affordability for our customers. Reporter the sheer scale of the 54 billion merger will attract regulatory scrutiny. The combined company will have more than 50 million members, covering 1 in
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Continued selling, similar to the kind weve seen pretty much all month. The first week of january the dow index fell more than 6 . The second, it lost another 2 . This week a reversal. The dow rose just under 1 . That weekly gain helped by a lot of buying today. By the close the blue chip index gained 210 points to 16,093. The nasdaq added 119 points, more than 2 1 2 . And the s p 500 tacked on 37. Theres still one week left in this month, and though stocks are still sharply lower for january overall that doesnt necessarily mean the rest of the year will be down as well. Bob pisani tells us the opposite is usually true. Reporter its an ugly start to the year, but theres hope. Theres been ugly januarys before that have not turned into fullyear disasters. So far january 2015 is among the top worst januarys ever, rivaling down januarys in 2009, 1970, 60, and 1990. However, those other lousy januarys did not end the year the same way, according to our partners over at kensho. In 2009 when