The proposed CVC MinuteClinics and MGB affiliation was always about market share and making money – and a preliminary report from the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (HPC) last week confirms that. How much money? Well, the deal, if it goes through, would drive up health-care spending by about $40 million, basically by transitioning low-cost MinuteClinic patients to high-cost primary care docs, the report says. It’s something I wrote about last year (“How does funneling patients to the most expensive care network in the state help reduce health costs?”) … The bottom line: The MGB-CVS partnership is bad deal for consumers, a good deal for CVS and MGB. …