the stock is up nearly 3%, and cvs president and ceo karen lynch joins us now exclusively welcome back, karen, nice to see you. >> hi, sara, nice to see you as well >> we're just coming off of the fed chair, powell's news conference and debating what the shape of the economy is going to look like. you have a significant retail business what's your sense of how consumers are holding up right now and whether that lasts >> in the quarter we have had very strong retail results as you think about our company, we're in the everyday essentials business, and people come into our retail locations to fill prescriptions, to go to the minute clinic and to pick up their health and wellness products so we've had a very resilient stores and our retail business is performing quite well as we think about the future and inflation, what we've been doing is we've been really, you know, pushing towards the cvs health branded products we've wibeen adjusting pricing we're looking at our extra care card to really help consumers, you know, adjust to the impact of inflation >> what about the health care benefit

ceo karen lynch says she has, quote, a high degree of confidence that states will participate in the billion opioid crisis settlement that the company has reached with those states, municipalities, native american tribes it announced the deal as well today and would -- will continue to defend, it says, against any litigation the settlement does not resolve. walgreens also, i think, in there for $4.5 billion of its own. the opioid crisis, by the way, still out of control in our country. >> it's ongoing. >> unabated. i'd like to see "the new york times" put those numbers next to the covid death numbers, because unfortunately, they're very close to each other at this point. 300 a day. it's horrible. but this money will go to the states, and potentially will start to actually help >> well, karen lynch, who is on at 3:00 with sara eisen, remarkable cvs, at one point, the stock was up 3 and then only 80 cents. it only sells at 11 times earnings and this was a company, very few are like this, that actually captured a lot of loyalty during the period of covid. you got your shot, and then you

on the health care sector tomorrow we've got an exclusive interview with the ceo of cvs health, karen lynch company reporting earnings tomorrow morning. >>> we're down 35 or so points on the dow s&p is down a quarter of 1%. the strength is in energy today, in financials, utilities, material, health care and industrials. technology is getting hit hard consumer discretionary is the worst performing, being dragged down by amazon, communication services held back by alphabet the nasdaq is down 0.7 we are a week away from the sit at telections and one of the buessteso watch is nevada we'll tell you about the business issues at play there next medicaid, i have some really encouraging news that you'll definitely want to hear. depending on the plan you choose, you may be eligible to get extra benefits with a humana medicare advantage dual-eligible special needs plan. all of these plans include a healthy options allowance. depending on the plans available in your area, you could get up to $1800 a year to help pay for essentials like eligible groceries, utilities, rent, pet care and over-the-counter

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