Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | yesterday
Q: About two and a half years ago I inherited about 500 shares of WellPoint stock. If I were to decide to sell the stock, what tax obligation would I have? Also, how would I go about selling them?
Jim Cramer's Mad Money (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Jim Cramer’s Mad Money Stock Picks for Thursday November 19 2009. These are all of Jim Cramer’s stock picks that are a Buy! I bold my picks. Buy: Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) Microsoft (MSFT) Research In Motion (RIMM) International Paper (IP) Hudson City Bancorp (HCBK) Citigroup (C) Bank of America (BAC) Wells Fargo (WFC) Triquint Semiconductor (TQNT) Cisco Systems (CSCO) Wellpoint (WLP) Rehabcare...
MN Progressive Project (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Thursday, November 19. 1. Jon Walker lays out "eight things wrong with the Senate health care bill," beginning with "Delays Start Until 2014" and including "Nationwide Plans Gutting State Regulation." Definitely a few things that need to be fixed here. 2. Jane Hamsher has a statement from FDL on the Senate health...
On Our Radar Today (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Aetna Not Alone In Layoffs As Other Insurers Also Pare Jobs Wall Street Journal WellPoint Inc. (WLP) has eliminated jobs over the past several weeks, although the managed-care giant isn't providing any numbers or making any kind of ... By: Zacks Equity Research Zacks.com tutte le notizie (2) »
market folly (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
This is the third quarter 2009 edition of our hedge fund portfolio tracking series. If you're unfamiliar with tracking hedge fund movements or SEC filings, check out our series preface on hedge fund 13F filings . Next up in our series is Dan Loeb's Third Point LLC. Third Point is a multi-billion dollar hedge fund that has seen annual returns greater than 15% since inception. Manager Dan Loeb focuses...
Arizona Eclectic (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
If Harry Reid truly cares about fighting for the good of the country over the good of Wellpoint, he will immediately dispense with the opt-out and move to reconciliation and allow a majority in the Senate to deliver to Americans what they want and desperately need.
TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Firedoglake is against it: It is encouraging that Senator Reid respected the will of the American people and included a public option in the merged Senate bill. However, the addition of a state opt-out provision threatens to leave millions of Americans at the mercy of private insurance monopolies, with the federal government acting as enforcers for a product with no competition to keep prices down....
SeekingAlpha ETFs (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
OptionMonster submits: We are seeing only slight movement to Sabrient’s Sector Detector ETF rankings, as Healthcare, InfoTech, and Consumer Staples continue to lead, while Materials sinks further into the cellar and remains the fundamentally most overvalued sector. Latest rankings: This week, SectorCast-ETF indicates that Healthcare ( XLV ) remains solidly in front on a forward-looking basis,...
The Medical Quack (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The economy is having it’s toll on everyone. Aetna has won some and lost some in the corporate bidding battles as employers have been one of their key targets. Bank of America and Tri-Care have been 2 of their recent awarded contracts. What else does this mean potentially, more automation and less potential individuals to speak with. All companies are streamlining their operations to incorporate...
Consumer Watchdog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Health insurance conglomerate Anthem Wellpoint recently tried to pawn off in Congress an internal analysis "proving" that health reform would raise health insurance rates 100% or more for many people. A look deeper into the company's own data shows just how twisted Wellpoint's math is.
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Remember this one ? The "Plan B" for getting all those moderates on board by creating state level triggered co-ops in lieu of a public option? Carper is still pushing it, acting as concern troll, catering to those vaunted "moderates" of the caucus. "We're concerned that a number of centrists aren't prepared to vote for a national public plan, even with an opt-out," Carper...
Delaware Liberal (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
You read that right -- the nation's largest insurer has hired Tom Carper's ex-Chief of Staff as a lobbyist to campaign for their interests on the health care bill:
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) reinvented/cribbed/copied Sen. Olympia Snowe's trigger proposal while hoping no one notices this effort to kill the public option. Could Carper's former chief of staff and current WellPoint lobbyist be helping?
Glick Report (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
WellPoint CEO Angela Braly joined me at the CEO Council in D.C. this morning to address underlying health-care costs and the unanswered questions surrounding health-care reform.Will those who have insurance see huge cost increases if health-care reform measures are passed? What will the impact be on insurers? What's the future of Medicare and Medicaid? Here's some [...]
Patient Centric Healthcare (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
I was looking for something the other day and stumbled upon this survey from earlier this year. I modified it to add the Wellpoint NextRx lives to the Express Scripts lives, but I wasn’t sure how to reconcile the Walgreens numbers (they are listed twice) and didn’t see any lives for RxAmerica which is [...]
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