- Tennessee is a landlocked state in the U.S. South. Its capital, centrally located Nashville, is the heart of the country-music scene, with the long-running Grand Ole Opry, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and a legendary stretch of honky-tonks and dance halls. Memphis, in the far southwest, is the home of Elvis Presley’s Graceland, rock-and-roll pioneering Sun Studio and the blues clubs of Beale Street.Eastern Tennessee features the Great Smoky Mountains National Park; the quaint resort town of Gatlinburg, with craft shops, art galleries and mountain skiing; and Dollywood, Dolly Parton’s Appalachian-themed park with rides, entertainment and a museum filled with the singer’s costumes and memorabilia. A number of cave systems are also found in the area, such as the Cumberland and Tuckaleechee caverns. Numerous Civil War sites are scattered around the state, including Shiloh National Military Park and Lookout Mountain, accessible via a steep inclined railway with sweeping views. Nearby Chattanooga offers the Tennessee Aquarium.
What the CVS-Aetna deal means for the future of health care When drug company chief executive Heather Bresch was hauled in front of Congress last year to defend the high price of lifesaving EpiPens, she drew skeptical lawmakers' attention to a large poster board that blamed the skyrocketing price tag on a coterie of drug supply chain middlemen. Of EpiPen's $608 list price, her company, Mylan, received only $274, Bresch said. "What the patient is paying is not . . . coming back to Mylan," Bresch said. "And when we were speaking earlier of the people, the middlemen in the system, that's either the pharmacy benefit managers, retailers, wholesalers, insurers." That supply chain — rarely seen by most consumers — is the center of attention in the corporate world after CVS Health announced a $69 billion deal to buy Aetna, the nation's third-largest insurer. Familiar as a corner drugstore, CVS Health actually makes most of its money from one of t
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