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Surge of new customers boosts Anthem’s profit

Anthem’s third-quarter profit rose nearly 4 percent as it added 174,000 health plan members. Its Medicaid, local employer and national employer segments all grew, although its individual business saw losses.

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Lilly CEO: Drugmakers getting bum rap

Eli Lilly and Co. CEO John Lechleiter told Wall Street analysts recently that, while there have been “individual huge drug price increases,” the overall cost of drugs is rising very slowly and remains a small part of overall U.S. health care spending.

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Cook executive, daughter die in plane crash

William S. Gibbons Jr., Cook's vice president of of global engineering, and his 15-year-old daughter, Abbey, were killed when the plane crashed into Buffalo Mountain in eastern Tennessee.

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