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
something on their digital equipment inside the plane. i mean, this is an older 767 but they might have noticed something in terms of engine pressure. but there s no question that they ll look at maintenance, they ll look at whether the engi they re going to look at a variety of things. and the black boxes will help tell the story. you say it s an older plane, it s 29 years old this boeing 767, a pretty common plane out there. is that an old plane 29 years? well, it s getting amount in years. my understanding is that the engines were an older variant of the pratton whitney engines. so it hadn t been retro fitted? well, we don t know that. we ll have to look at maintenance records very quickly and look at the records of the engine extremely carefully. could there be a bigger problem with the older boeing 767s? well, you know, old got to be careful talking about old in aviation. if you do in fact follow the book to the letter of the law, planes can last an awful long