Will CVS Get the Chance to Buy Aetna?

In this Market Foolery podcast, host Chris Hill is joined by Industry Focus: Healthcare host, Kristine Harjes, to dig into CVS Health's (NYSE: CVS) offer to purchase insurer Aetna (NYSE: AET) for $69 billion. Rumors of the acquisition talks had been in the air for weeks, and the shares didn't move much on the news that confirmed them. The real questions from here start with a big one: Will regulators actually let these two combine into a vertically integrated healthcare monolith? Based on the share prices, Wall Street isn't feeling terribly sure.

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