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'Mad Money' Spotlight: Cramer Prescribes Medco

Stock quotes in this article: MHS , UNH , ABC  

With our nation's capital abuzz with talk of the health-care reform that may or not come, Jim Cramer took the time to explain one corporate player that could weather the storm just fine. In fact, Cramer thinks its cost-cutting ways are a model for the health-care system.

That company is Medco Health Solutions(MHS Quote), whose CEO, David Snow, dropped by Cramer's studio to talk about the regulatory environment.

Medco is one in a segment of players in the prescription benefit-management industry. The field, which began growing in the 1980s, uses its market position to negotiate drug discounts from manufacturers, distributions and pharmacies. Companies like Medco use bargaining power to extract cuts and discounts, passing along savings to clients and pocketing some of the difference. ...

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