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It should be no surprise the way we buy health insurance is changing.

Omnicare Inc. said Tuesday it is giving up on its hostile bid to acquired fellow long-term pharmacy operator PharMerica Corp. after antitrust regulators opposed the deal.

Medco Health Solutions Inc.'s fourth-quarter net income rose 12 percent, as gains from generic prescriptions and the pharmacy benefits manager's specialty business helped offset costs from its pending acquisition by Express Scripts Inc.

Hartford is trying to recapture its status as the nation's insurance capital by drawing in a specialized insurance business that is finding a home elsewhere.

Republican lawmakers in a handful of states are opening another front in the war against President Obama's health care overhaul, seizing on the hot-button issue of birth control with bills that would allow insurance companies to ignore new federal rules requiring them to cover contraception.

As if health care wasnt scary enough. Today, LexisNexis Risk Solutions released a list of top trends in health care fraud, waste and abuse.