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One of the first questions they ask us is, Well, if youre going to be part of the health-care system, how can you continue to sell tobacco products? CVS chief medical officer Dr

Caremark at the time was the second-biggest manager of employee prescription-drug benefits.

And CVS says it can make up those costs, maintaining its guidance, although that earnings coverage has to come from somewhere

CVS and other drugstores have delved deeper into customer health in recent years, in part to serve the aging baby boom generation and the millions of uninsured people who are expected to gain coverage under the federal health care overhaul

The idea also is that a robust PBM business raises the odds that Caremark members will choose to get their prescriptions filled at a CVS rather than a Walgreens (WBA) or a Rite Aid (RAD)