The all-cash takeover will bulk up UnitedHealths growing business of clinics and physician practices, which it operates under the OptumCare name.

As the specter of Amazon.com Inc. looms over the health-care industry, its easy to see the tech giants threat as a major factor behind the megadeal between CVS Health Corp. and Aetna Inc. Yet the deal will build a company to match up against a rival that already has businesses...

Passing a bipartisan Obamacare stabilization bill wouldnt do much to cushion the blow from repealing the health laws requirement that all individuals buy health insurance, the Congressional Budget Office says.

A deal between the two would create a health-services giant and a bigger competitor for UnitedHealth Group Inc., which is the largest U.S. health insurer and has its own own clinics and a pharmacy-benefits unit.

Congresss non-partisan scorekeeper didnt find any big savings for the U.S government in a Senate bill designed to stabilize Obamacare, but the reason for that is a technicality.

The deal includes funding for insurer subsidies for two years, with unspecified pro-life protections; pausing Obamacares requirements that all people have health insurance and that employers offer it; and increasing the contribution limit for health-savings accounts.

President Donald Trump gave his blessing to a bipartisan health-care bill to pay the same insurance subsidies that the president said hed halt last week, according to a Republican senator working on the package.

Overwhelmed by the deluge of analyses, scrutiny, predictions and other responses to the Trump administration's health care reform efforts? Here are nine basic questions and answers.