{"id":3643,"date":"2016-07-21T11:17:23","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T15:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3643"},"modified":"2016-07-21T11:30:22","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T15:30:22","slug":"ready-to-defend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3643","title":{"rendered":"Ready to Defend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, Aetna Inc. stated they are ready to go to court to defend their $37 billion deal to takeover\u00a0Humana Inc.; if necessary.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-07-20\/aetna-said-ready-to-fight-u-s-in-court-to-close-deal-if-sued?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+Daily+Health+Policy+Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=31934706&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--HavIdLSj1uqHac14mEeOa4KA6ovUTeu2vnmAGeonwHrZ5K5sw44QPARG4sJwjd8mj_7gV6rDILWA7jkMhqXYcO7WK8g&amp;_hsmi=31934706\" target=\"_blank\"> Read article here\u2026.<\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, Aetna Inc. stated they are ready to go to court to defend their $37 billion deal to takeover\u00a0Humana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-medicare-advantage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3643"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3646,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643\/revisions\/3646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}