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Aetna, Humana, Anthem and Cigna cited the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, which was passed by Congress in 2010 to significantly expand access to affordable health insurance.
Aetna and Humana shareholders would own 74% and 26% of the new combined company, however the merger was blocked by a federal judge in January 2017. [15] [16] In February 2017, Aetna Inc. and Humana Inc. quashed a $34 billion merger agreement after judges ruled against the merger for a second time. [17]
In 2015, Cigna made a bid for Humana, which it ultimately lost to Aetna . But the potential Aetna-Humana merger failed when federal judges intervened on the basis of antitrust concerns.
By Anirban Sen and Deena Beasley (Reuters) -U.S. health insurer Cigna is in talks to merge with peer Humana, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday, a deal that could exceed $60 ...
Aetna Inc. (/ ˈ ɛ t n ə / ET-nə) is an American managed health care company that sells traditional and consumer directed health care insurance and related services, such as medical, pharmaceutical, dental, behavioral health, long-term care, and disability plans, primarily through employer-paid (fully or partly) insurance and benefit programs, and through Medicare.
This Optum-UnitedHealth model of vertical integration [20] is pointed to as having sparked a pattern of acquisition activity in the healthcare industry; most notably, mega-mergers between CVS-Aetna, Cigna-Express Scripts and Humana-Kindred. [21] "Optum's been the leader in showing how a managed care organization with an ambulatory care delivery ...