{"id":5828,"date":"2017-02-09T10:34:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T15:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5828"},"modified":"2017-02-09T10:34:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T15:34:57","slug":"no-go-on-anthems-and-cigna-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5828","title":{"rendered":"No Go on Anthem\u2019s and Cigna Merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson halted Anthem\u2019s bid to acquire Cigna for $54 billion stating the deal between the insurance giants can\u2019t go forward because it would illegally hurt competition. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/02\/judge-rejects-anthems-54-billion-takeover-of-cigna-234826?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+Daily+Health+Policy+Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=42302337&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--HIv5Jnqu-xSKR2akl5uWmBB65i_2nx3lk7f0Xj39NR68lIkPcV3ruaScnGZ8b-eduFCuNHmzWE6XqC9PkJ0Wk11D5eg&amp;_hsmi=42302337\" 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>U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson halted Anthem\u2019s bid to acquire Cigna for $54 billion stating the deal between the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-actionscourt-decisions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828","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=5828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5829,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828\/revisions\/5829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}