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The end of a legal dispute between Express Scripts and Walgreen removes a hurdle standing between the companies and a new contract to do business, according to BMO Capital.

The SelectAccount acquisition includes more than 52,000 HSAs with total deposits of nearly $120 million, bringing the total amount of assets in consumer medical savings accounts under SelectAccount's management to approximately $400 million.

WellPoint Inc. plans to buy contact lens retailer 1-800-Contacts Inc. in a deal that would give the insurer its first direct-to-consumer business outside selling individual health coverage.

Firms are paying for less health care on workers behalf. Thats the major enrollment theme of 2012, a continuation of trends that the industry has seen for multiple years.

Though there are more possible outcomes than threeand more complicated onesthe following are a fair bet on what will happenor at least what people think will happen.

President Barack Obama says the May jobs report shows that the economy is not creating jobs "as fast as we want" but vows that the economy will improve.