Health Care Reform

Local pharmacies and patient groups like it. Health insurance and benefits groups predict it will drive up costs.

The three largest PBMs, including CVS Caremark, Express Scripts and OptumRx, "handle 79% of U.S. medical prescriptions for approximately 270 million people."

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the health care labor market faced challenges, with the demand for professionals outpacing supply.

On average, Marketplace enrollees had access to 40% of the doctors near their home through their plan's network, with considerable variation around the average.

He told an interviewer that IVF cash could come either from the government or from insurers.

Health care deals are especially likely to increase use of specialty care, actuaries told state insurance regulators.