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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “CVS Health owns Aetna, the health insurance company.”

Featuring: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic | U.S. House, New York, District 14

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Rep. AOC Calls Out CVS Health's Corporate Strategy to Monopolize Patient Care

Published | Video Starts at 00:19

Thank you to all of our witnesses for coming here today. Mr. Joyner, you are the CEO of CVS Health, correct? Correct. And I actually don't know how many Americans know this, but CVS Health owns Aetna, the health insurance company. correct? Correct. And cvs, which owns Aetna, also owns Oak Street Health Medical clinics, correct? Yes, it does. And in addition to that, they own, of course, CVS pharmacies. (00:19–00:23)

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