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We're bringing health care to"where peop

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问题 We're bringing health care to"where people live and work."So declared Larry Merlo,CEO of CVS Health,an American retail-pharmacy giant,announcing a$69 billion deal to buy Aetna,a heatth insurer.One rationale for the deal-assuming the regulators wave it through-is for the merged firm to develop personalised health care that people can easily get access to.There is another,more defensive,impetus behind the deal-the prospect of Amazon going into prescription medicine.The American pharmaceutical market is an alluring one for the online giant.It is large,worth$450 billion in 2016.And it is widely regarded as inefficient,leaving customers without good information about products they are buying.Compared with books,toys and other bulky items,the drugs market would appear to be a nirvana for Amazon.Prescription medicines weigh almost nothing,take up little space and can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars per pill.But three barriers block the road to this idyll.First,the sale and distribution of drugs is heavily regulated.Amazon would not be able to dump prescription drugs into the same fulfilment channels as its other products.It must acquire pharmaceutical licences for any state where it wishes to operate.Amazon would also need approval from the Food and Drug Administration at a federal level.Operating in a controlled industry would be a departure for a free-wheeling tech firm.Second,most drugs are paid for by insurers,not by consumers.The pharmacy-benefits managers（PBMs）,a sort of middlemen that buy drugs for insurers and companies,perform the complex task of matching purchases with patients'insurers,so that drugs are paid for.That is a source of the sort of opacity that Amazon would seek to remove.But the rcommerce firm would still need to handle issues of payment in the background,without keeping asking consumers for insurance details.Third,although drugs do come in small packages,their shipping and handling often require special attention.Many drugs must be kept cold throughout the supply chain.Others are dangerous,and must be kept in locked cages.Yet these drugs are often also the most expensive.If Amazon cherry-picks drugs that fit well into its existing network,it will miss out on a large slice of the market.Customers could find it confusing to be able to get some prescriptions through Amazon's store but not others.Amazon could find itself a partner,however.In July the boss of Express Scripts,a PBM,said it could use Amazon as an"efficient provider in networks".Or Amazon could buy what it needs.It might buy Rite Aid,a big pharmacy chain,giving it licences,a"cold-chain"infrastructure and Rite Aid's small PBM in one swoop.A prospect like that goes a long way to explaining the marriage of CVS and Aetna.What prompted CVS to buy Aetna?A.lts eagerness to bring health care to all.B.Its desire to develop personalized medicineC.Its concern over a potential threatD.lts passion for prescription drug business
选项 A.lts eagerness to bring health care to all.
B.Its desire to develop personalized medicine
C.Its concern over a potential threat
D.lts passion for prescription drug business
答案 C
解析 第二段②句指出，CVS收购Aetna这一交易背后有一个自卫性的推动力量：网络巨头Amazon大有进入处方药市场的可能。稍作推理可知，二者合并在很大程度上是为了增强力量、对抗Amazon这一巨大竞争／威胁，C.正确。[排除干扰]A.利用开篇句干扰，但选项bring health care to all和原文bringing health care to“where people live ancl work”存在偏差，且这是“CVS宣称的合并前景”，并非题目所问“推动合并的原因”。B.偷换第二段首句所述合并原因，将“开发个性化医疗保健（develop personalised health care）”改为“研发个性化药品（develop personalized medicine）”。D.将第二段②句所述合并原因“Amazon意欲进入处方药市场”改为“二者合并意在进军处方药市场”。
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