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State’s Sec­ond-Largest Health Insur­er Slams Bio­gen For Cost­ly Alzheimer’s Drug (The Boston Globe): The state’s sec­ond-biggest health insur­er is threat­en­ing to lim­it or not cov­er Biogen’s new Alzheimer’s drug, accus­ing the Cam­bridge biotech of putting “exces­sive cor­po­rate prof­its” ahead of patients by charg­ing $56,000 a year for the con­tro­ver­sial treat­ment. Michael Sher­man, chief med­ical officer…