“I think [recent Senate hearings on the Medco/Express Scripts merger] clearly demonstrated some of the very substantial competitive concerns….There are 32 football teams, but there are only two in the Super Bowl. When it comes down to the Super Bowl of pharmacy benefits for large employers, it’s basically [the soon-to-be-merged company and CVS Caremark Corp.]"
— David Balto, a former policy director with the FTC who testified on behalf of a coalition of unions, employers and consumer groups that oppose the merger, told AIS’s Drug Benefit News.
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