green-lighted by the u.s. government. correspondent gillian turner takes a look at what it means to you. is $69 billion merger between cvs and insurance giant aetna is poised to change how, where and when millions of american this election is about your families, their values, and what patients received medical care. not all of it will be for the good of patients, though, kind of country you want to leave for your children. according to some financial analysts who specialize in health care. it could lead to fewer democrats want to raise your options for patients who are taxes and impose socialism. looking to buy insurance. how? other than my part of this merger is the entrance of data. if you want to continue our great economic boom like we have prescription records for the many 5 million americans or visit the stores each day, a before, but it s all very data gold mine for a large fragile. it can end it, they can end of health insurer like aetna. aetna will gain a more detai
what. we just went from 3.7 to 4.1 trillion in one year. how about carving a little bit out of that. no, we can t. in three years, we re going to be at 5 trillion and nobody says anything even on the right. . i m tired of several the so-called conservatives, we care so much and fiscally responsible and boom, we throw in another budget with 4.1 trillion dollars in it. we ve got to change the trajectory. the markets are doing great right now, but one day they re going to start reacting to debt and deficits out there and i hope not to be around when that happens. and the market is going to react if they change the 401(k) rules, the money comes in from 401(k) gets invested and it s not going to be there, that s not good for the market. it sends a bad news if they cut the estate tax and tax people on 401(k) s, the messaging is terrible. liz: got to figure it out. coming up, drug store giant cvs reportedly wants to buy health insurance giant aetna.
down. now, for cvs this is about one thing, touch. they want to be able to touch more people. aetna is a ton of people. cvs already has all the people coming in and this will just add to it and let s just hope competition breeds lower prices as we move forward, but leave no doubt that health care is big a blob that has to be worked out over time. liz: and like the blob it s bigger and bigger and moving towards us. rachel, what would it mean to a consumer who is upset about paying such high pharmaceutical prices. i know it s hard to anticipate, but what do you expect? well, i think exactly what he just said. i think that we may see prices come down as there s no competition. what i find interesting is as we see millions of aetna subscribers or members going into cvs or pushed into cvs, does cvs move more into health care and providing services that you once had to go to the hospital to get? i have eight kids, i hate going
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