{"id":5298,"date":"2016-12-14T11:39:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T16:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5298"},"modified":"2016-12-14T11:39:47","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T16:39:47","slug":"the-judge-could-end-the-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5298","title":{"rendered":"The Judge Could End the Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On Tuesday, the U.S. Justice Department wrapped up its arguments in its lawsuit to halt Anthem Inc.\u2019s planned takeover of Cigna Corp.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-12-13\/anthem-cigna-merger-goes-to-judge-for-ruling-that-could-end-deal?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+Daily+Health+Policy+Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=39248378&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9J_vCruT3MYbEE-Ur3MRcPHIObYG2elhAS5tAGowhI-2-Qo7somSKjw0ODN_OkbOrUY0TA4RtLlSuOi8J7Jx5IjR9qpA&amp;_hsmi=39248378\" target=\"_blank\"> Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/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 Tuesday, the U.S. Justice Department wrapped up its arguments in its lawsuit to halt Anthem Inc.\u2019s planned takeover of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-legal-actionscourt-decisions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5298","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5299,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5298\/revisions\/5299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}