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Business● Low2h ago · Nov 4, 2026, 11:46 AM

CVS to split off drugstore business in major breakup of healthcare giant

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The move would reverse the company's $78 billion acquisition of Aetna and dismantle the vertically integrated healthcare conglomerate it created in 2018.

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