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Thursday, 10/26/2017 7:32:43 PM

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The Real Reason CVS Wants to Buy Aetna? Amazon
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-real-reason-cvs-wants-to-buy-aetna-amazon-com-1509057307

Amazon.com Inc. has struck again. Only this time the internet giant is shaking up an industry it hasn’t yet entered.

Amazon’s potential entry into the pharmacy-services industry helped spur CVS Health Corp.’s $66 billion bid for insurance giant Aetna Inc., according to a person familiar with the matter. An acquisition of a major insurer was among roughly a dozen strategies CVS’s management team recently presented to directors, the person said.

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