Hit Parade: Cingular, Caremark and Scientology in Hot Pursuit of the Almighty Dollar

Today’s linkfest is all about Big Corporations, Big Religion and Big Money. It has some of my old-time favorites as well as some newer finds. Via There’s Something About Harry and MobileTracker, the eye-popping story of Cingular Wireless’ tireless effort to bilk a senior citizen out of $31,000.00. It seems that 77-year old Oliver DeSofi’s …

Caremark/CVS Merger: Stunning News

From ABC News: Drugstore operator CVS Corp. announced Wednesday it is buying pharmacy benefits manager Caremark Rx Inc. for about $21.3 billion in stock. The deal, which the companies described as a “merger of equals,” would create a drug benefit manager that can take on retail leader Wal-Mart’s growing presence in generic drug sales, analysts …

Caremark, PBMs, Studies and a Broken System

In a recent comment, J criticized me for being too negative about Caremark. So I’ve tried to find something to balance that negativity and did come up with this article this morning. Congratulations to the employees manning the phones. It’s not an easy job and I can say that I’ve honestly never had a problem …