WellPoint to buy CareMore Health Group for about $800 million

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The deal, which is expected to be announced Wednesday morning, would add to WellPoint's already dominant position in California, Arizona and Nevada.

Authored by Richard Kocur via The Mises Institute, Recently, Senator Bernie Sanders unveiled a single-payer healthcare plan called “Medicare for All.” Sanders titled his approach for nationalizing one-sixth of the American economy as “Medicare for All” in order to offer a template for his vision of the U.S. healthcare system.

By Gad Allon: By Martin Lariviere

MUMBAI: Singapore's Temasek Holdings is set to acquire a controlling 72 per cent stake in Hyderabad-based CARE Hospitals from the current private equity owner Advent International for Rs 1,800 crore, edging past competing offers from Abraaj, an emerging markets private equity group. Temasek had earlier teamed up with TPG Growth to form a consortium but the latter opted out of the race a few weeks back after it was not comfortable with the final contours of the transaction, including the pricing, said three people directly involved in the deal.

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