Express Scripts to buy Medco for $29 billion

The top two U.S. companies managing prescription drug benefits are uniting in a $29.1-billion deal they say will help achieve key goals of the healthcare overhaul: reining in costs and improving patients' health. Express Scripts Inc. announced an agreement Thursday to buy larger rival Medco Health ...

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