While asked at a press event about the drug industry, President-elect Trump is quoted as having said “we’re going to knock out the middle man,” which is being attributed for the late morning dip seen in shares of CVS Health (CVS). CVS is owner of one of the three biggest pharmacy-benefit managers, Caremark, which is joined on that list by Cigna’s (CI) Express Scripts and UnitedHealthGroup’s (UNH) OptumRx.
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