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Trump says ‘we’re going to knock out the middleman’ and eliminate pharmacy benefit managers that he claims are jacking up drug prices

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President-elect Donald Trump's continued criticism of pharmacy benefit managers has sent health insurers' stocks slumping.

The president-elect's comments had an almost immediate effect on the respective parent companies behind Caremark , Optum, and Express Scripts .

CVS Health shares faltered about 1% overnight following the press conference, while UnitedHealth Group’s .

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