Last Tuesday, Senior Republican leadership in the Senate held a closed-door briefing for Republican Senate members regarding Senate health care reform legislation. Senior Republican leadership reportedly indicated that they favor the retention of guaranteed protections for individuals with preexisting conditions, a more gradual roll back of the expansion of Medicaid, and may opt to keep … Continue reading
A split DC Circuit panel affirmed a U.S. District Court’s permanent injunction against the US$54 billion merger between Anthem and Cigna, holding the district court did not abuse its discretion in enjoining the merger based on Anthem’s failure to show the extraordinary efficiencies necessary to offset the anticompetitive effect of the merger in fourteen states. … Continue reading