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CVS Announces Plans To Buy Insurer Aetna For $69 Billion

CVS is one of the biggest companies in the U.S., and it’s about to get even bigger through a planned acquisition of the health insurance company Aetna.

Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson speaks with Michael Regan (@Reganonymous) of Bloomberg News about what the merger means for the companies, and for consumers, at a time when the U.S. health care system is changing.

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