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DQ.7.1. To Acquire or Not to Acquire
The federal Department of Justice filed suit to block the Cigna-Anthem merger. In May 2018, Cigna announced its intention to merge with Express Scripts. How are these two actions similar? Different? How does this differ from the proposed Walmart-Humana merger?
DQ.7.2. All Come Together
Scan this series of journal articles and opinion pieces (found is the Course Content folder).
· Gaynor, M., & Haas-Wilson, D. (1999).
· Cuellar A.E., & Gertler, P.J. (2003).
· Cuellar A.E., & Gertler, P.J. (2005).
· Vogt, W.B., & Town, R. (2006).
· Deloitte (2014).
· Gooch, K. (2016
· Barker, E., (2017).
· Kandrach, M. (2018).
· Nickels, T. (2018).
What has caused this over two decade trend of consolidation? Is it likely to continue? Why? Is this a good thing or not? What has been the impact on patients, providers, payors?
