BIG PHARMA WINS: White House Kills Prescription Drug Rebate Plan. “Taking slush money back from well-healed groups like Cigna’s Express Scripts, CVS Caremark, and UnitedHealth’s OptumRx, and putting it in the hands of sick people… well, that’s as close to a political no-brainer as I’ve ever seen. Yet the vested interests in Washington were powerful enough to strangle it in the crib.”