WellPoint to buy CareMore Health Group for about $800 million

MIAMI (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush is proposing significant changes to Social Security and Medicare to keep the costly federal entitlement programs on solid financial footing.Bush outlined his proposals on the website Medium.com on Tuesday, the day before the third Republican presidential debate, in Colorado.

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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.

You aren’t getting any younger… It’s no secret. You’ve heard time and again how the aging baby boomers are warping this country’s demographics. Births are dropping, while the ranks of folks cashing Social Security checks grows by the day. Now, big business is set to take advantage of the trend. Just how much older are we getting? Check out the statistics…

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Kevin Drum wonders if these predictions of ever-growing health care costs might not be groundless: “I can think of lots of technological revolutions that were pretty costly at first but eventually reached a point where they leveled out and then became cheaper. In fact, pretty much all of them. But perhaps healthcare is different in some ways from previous technological revolutions?”