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Corrente (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Shackled Howie Hawkins appears in Syracuse City Court Hawkins was arrested around 1 p.m. Wednesday by Syracuse police outside the office of National Government Services at 400 S. Salina St., which houses the care claims office of Wellpoint Inc., a large health insurer. Hawkins said he was trying to enter the building to deliver a letter to the CEO of Wellpoint Inc. demanding that the CEO’s salary...
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ColoradoPols.com - Front Page (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Fascinating reality check from the Center for American Progress , with a local twist: Under the Republican health care alternative filed in the House, young and healthy individuals can purchase policies from insurers that don't abide by local benefit or rate standards. The Republican bill allows the health insurer to choose a "primary state" "whose covered laws shall govern the health...
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Greens for greens (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins was arrested Wednesday afternoon during a peaceful protest in Syracuse, NY. About a dozen people gathered outside of the Wellpoint/Excellus offices to protest some of the company’s practices. Syracuse Police say Hawkins was arrested for a trespassing violation. They say he stood in the doorway of the building blocking customer [...]
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On Our Radar Today (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Cigna evaluates, decides to keep pharmacy benefits management business Los Angeles Times AP Health insurer wellpoint Inc. announced plans last spring to sell its pharmacy benefits management business to Express Scripts Inc. for about $4.68 ... altro »
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Jim Cramer's Mad Money (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Jim Cramer’s Mad Money Stock Picks for Wednesday November 4 2009. These are all of Jim Cramer’s stock picks that are a Buy! I bold my picks. Buy: Tessera Technologies (TSRA) EnCana (ECA) Wendy’s/Arby’s Group (WEN) Wellpoint (WLP) Immunogen (IMGN) Human Genome Sciences (HGSI) Goldman Sachs (GS) Sims Group (SMS) Sell: Seattle Genetics (SGEN) Always do your own research as these...
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Tessera Technologies
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Madd Money (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
“WellPoint Inc. (NYSE:WLP) next year could shoot $40 higher than its Wednesday trading price, as long as the stock’s price-to-earnings multiple normalizes,” Jim Cramer said on Wednesday’s “Stop Trading!” segment. He said there was no stopping WellPoint now and that it was on the move. Cramer predicted $6.50 in 2010 earnings per share for WLP, [...]
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Senate health committee Chairman Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, asked four of the nations largest health insurers - Aetna, Humana, Wellpoint and UnitedHealth - to explain their pricing policies after small-business owners testified Tuesday that insurance premiums were crushing their businesses, the Des Moines Register reports.
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The Street (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Tuesday's elections were a referendum on President Obama and healthcare. Watch this video for the must-buy healthcare stocks.
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Jim Cramer's Mad Money (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Jim Cramer’s Mad Money Stock Picks for Tuesday November 3 2009. These are all of Jim Cramer’s stock picks that are a Buy! I bold my picks. Buy: Walgreens (WAG) CVS Caremark (CVS) Becton Dickinson (BDX) Cypress Semiconductor (CY) Skyworks Solutions (SWKS) Hartford Financial Services (HIG) China Unicom (CHU) Apple (AAPL) Windstream (WIN) Enterprise Products Partners (EPD) Altria (MO) Celgene...
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BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Filed under: Market matters , Stocks to Buy , Cramer on BloggingStocks From TheStreet.com Network Health Insurers Don't Deserve Vitriol Google's Kill Count Grows TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says stocks like WellPoint are buys again because the months of rhetoric will end. Buy WellPoint (NYSE: WLP ) ( Cramer's Take ). Right now. That's what I thought the moment I saw Chris Christie's shocking triumph...
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The Street (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Stocks like WellPoint are buys again because the months of rhetoric will end.
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Gov20, HealthIT & Healthcare Reform (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Washington, D.C.- The lobbying expenses of the top 13 health insurers and their industry association, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), were nearly $8.2 million in the third quarter of 2009 to influence Congress on upcoming health care legislation, according to analysis released today by the nonpartisan campaign finance watchdog Public Campaign Action Fund (PCAF). The total marks an 11 percent...
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Running a hospital (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
My friend Tom Sellers has fled Boston and taken a new position as President & CEO of the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship . (Locals here will know that Tom led the fundraising, community relations, and development activities for a $30 million American Cancer Society project to build a 50,000 square foot Hope Lodge in Boston to provide free lodging to over 1,000 cancer patients annually....
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Dad29 (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
The Wellpoint study (not, of course, "news" in the judgment of the Left-O-JSOnline.) Men, just go to Page 9 . Ladies, this is the deal of the century for you--assuming, of course, that you are older (> 60 years of age) and not too healthy. (See P. 1) If you are young and healthy, tough cookies. Boys will pay more to play, but you'll pay more, period.
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D-Day (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
( Sick for Profit ) The House and Senate will be voting on health care bills in a matter of weeks. But the forces behind the status quo have not quit in their efforts to derail the bill or at least get as many goodies out of it as they can. The lobbying expenses of the top 13 health insurers and their industry association, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), spent nearly $8.2 million in the third...
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