CVS closes $10.6B acquisition of Oak Street Health to expand primary care footprint

CVS Health is expanding its vertical integration into providing healthcare. Besides the nearly 10,000 community pharmacies, they have specialty pharmacies, mail order pharmacies, Aetna insurance, the PBM Caremark, Silver Scripts Medicare Part D now part of Aetna and a Medicare -C (Advantage) prgms, and in many of their community pharmacies they have MINUTE CLINICS and […]

Homeless vets are being booted from NY hotels to make room for migrants: advocates

 https://nypost.com/2023/05/12/homeless-vets-are-being-booted-from-ny-hotels-to-make-room-for-migrants-advocates/amp/ Nearly two dozen struggling homeless veterans have been booted from upstate hotels to make room for migrants, says a nonprofit group that works with the vets. The ex-military — including a 24-year-old man in desperate need of help after serving in Afghanistan — were told by the hotels at the beginning of the week that […]