Comments From Trump, Pfizer CEO Hit UnitedHealth, CVS Stock

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Comments From Trump, Pfizer CEO Hit UnitedHealth, CVS Stock

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President-elect Donald Trump weighed successful  connected  health-care issues astatine  a property   league  Monday.

President-elect Donald Trump weighed successful connected health-care issues astatine a property league Monday. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Shares of the genitor companies of pharmacy payment managers fell Tuesday aft President-elect Donald Trump and others indicated that the caller medication planned to ace down connected the business.

Shares of UnitedHealth were down 3.3% portion Cigna and CVS Health shares fell 2.6% and 4.4% respectively. Humana shares slid 8.5%. The stocks declined aft dropping connected Monday, pursuing comments Trump made astir their pharmacy-benefit units.

"We're going to sound retired the middleman. We're going to get cause costs down astatine levels that cipher has ever seen before," Trump said Monday. He said the companies “don't bash thing but they're a middleman.”

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