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The Motley Fool December 10, 2009 Brian Orelli |
The Public Option Is Dead. Again. Maybe. So why haven't health insurers' stocks rebounded? |
The Motley Fool November 9, 2009 Brian Orelli |
Health-Care Reform: A Tale of Two Chambers Halfway done, but the battle is just heating up. |
The Motley Fool January 20, 2010 Brian Orelli |
Health-Care Reform: It's Not Over Yet Massachusetts has spoken with its election of Scott Brown to the Senate. What's up next? |
The Motley Fool December 24, 2009 Brian Orelli |
Health-Care Reform: Two-Thirds Finished The U.S. Senate voted this morning to pass the health-care reform bill, moving us closer to capping off the long process that's weighed on health-care and insurance stocks this year. |
The Motley Fool February 9, 2010 Brian Orelli |
What Bipartisan Health-Care Reform Means for Investors Republicans and Democrats will debate on TV, but little may come of it. |
The Motley Fool May 28, 2009 Brian Orelli |
When All Else Fails Save the customer money so they can give it to you. |
The Motley Fool March 25, 2009 Brian Orelli |
You Can't Have One Without the Other Heath insurers are playing fair. |
The Motley Fool July 31, 2009 Brian Orelli |
A Health-Care Investor's Nightmare When it comes to health-care reform, no news is not good news; the House's recent plan to delay voting on a health-care reform bill until September should have investors reaching for the antacids. |
BusinessWeek August 6, 2009 |
Health Reform: A Timeline The latest battle over how to overhaul the U.S. health-care system intensified last fall with the election of Barack Obama. |
The Motley Fool January 28, 2010 Brian Orelli |
Health-Care Reform Is Dead. Probably. Breaking up the bill doesn't seem like the answer. What do insurers and pharmaceutical companies have to say? |
The Motley Fool October 21, 2009 Brian Orelli |
When Fundamentals Don't Matter UnitedHealth Group had a robust quarter. Even as unemployment drove membership rolls lower, the company topped analyst estimates by keeping costs down. Alas, none of this will matter much if Uncle Sam steps in. |
The Motley Fool January 22, 2010 Brian Orelli |
UnitedHealth: Beats Earnings, and Gets Beat Down? UnitedHealth was healthy last quarter, but on Wall Street, it's the future that counts. |
The Motley Fool September 17, 2009 Brian Orelli |
Baucuscare: Who's Paying? You are -- indirectly, of course. But nobody said reform would be cheap. |
The Motley Fool August 25, 2008 Brian Orelli |
Health Insurers Head to China Health insurers are seeking out untapped regions like China for the potential to fuel further expansion. |
The Motley Fool February 26, 2010 Brian Orelli |
Political Theater: More Entertaining Than Helpful Health-care reform, like health-care stocks, remains still stuck in limbo. |
The Motley Fool September 19, 2008 Brian Orelli |
Health Insurers Are Not AIG Health insurers get hammered this week. |
InternetNews February 25, 2011 Kenneth Corbin |
Senators Press for Net Neutrality Support Group of four Democrats appeal to Senate leadership to reject House proposals to overturn Federal Communications Commission's open Internet order. |
BusinessWeek August 6, 2009 Terhune & Epstein |
The Health Insurers Have Already Won How UnitedHealth and rival carriers, maneuvering behind the scenes in Washington, shaped health-care reform for their own benefit. |
The Motley Fool October 13, 2009 Brian Orelli |
Health-Care Reform: You Can't Have It Both Ways Requiring insurers to cover pre-existing conditions needs to go hand-in-hand with requiring healthy people to purchase insurance. |
Insurance & Technology June 1, 2006 Maria Woehr |
The Big (Not So) Easy The Louisiana Senate Insurance Committee has approved legislation that the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America fears could raise rates for consumers and drive insurers that still are dealing with the effects of Hurricane Katrina from the Louisiana market. |
National Real Estate Investor January 1, 2005 Jim Arbury |
A Second Term for Bush Has Policy Implications The implications for the apartment sector, in particular, and the broader real estate industry are numerous. |
Insurance & Technology February 4, 2010 |
Pelosi Plans Vote to Revoke Health Insurers' Antitrust Exemption U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she plans to schedule a vote on a bill to revoke the health insurance industry's exemption from antitrust laws. |
Investment Advisor January 1, 2011 Melanie Waddell |
New Year Will Likely Include New Tax Scheme Odds favor both House and Senate passage of bipartisan tax package. |
The Motley Fool February 24, 2009 Brian Orelli |
Health Insurers Hammered. Again. Health insurers were blown away by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' announcement that it plans to raise the 2010 Medicare Advantage payment rates by only 0.5%. |
The Motley Fool September 10, 2009 Brian Orelli |
Obamacare: Something for Everyone to Hate Health insurers saw more to love, though. |
The Motley Fool April 7, 2009 Brian Orelli |
Thanks for Nothing, CMS Insurers like Humana, Coventry Health Care, and UnitedHealth Group are going to have to raise the prices of their Medicare Advantage plans to keep their margins at a reasonable level. |
The Motley Fool October 17, 2008 Brian Orelli |
UnitedHealth Sick for Another Year As employers cut back on the number of employees, they also cut back on the number of people insured. Not a good sign for UnitedHealth and the rest of the health insurers. |
The Motley Fool December 1, 2008 Brian Orelli |
Health Insurers' Universal Uncertainty Universal health care is putting a damper on insurers. |
InternetNews January 28, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
House Expected to OK Billions for Broadband A House vote on the stimulus package is likely to fall along party lines, while Senate debate is seen as more conciliatory. |
BusinessWeek November 18, 2010 Drew Armstrong |
Guess Who Opposes Reversing the Individual Mandate in Health Reform? As Republicans take aim at the individual mandate in the health reform law, health-care industry groups are lobbying to preserve it. |
The Motley Fool August 20, 2009 Nathan Alderman |
Why a Public Health-Care Option Helps Capitalism One of the most vilified planks of the Obama administration's platform -- the proposed public health care option -- may actually do the greatest good for our free-market economy. |
Inc. February 1, 2003 Eamon Javers |
Storming the Hill Now that the Republicans are in command, the small-business lobby hopes this new congressional session will bring it more victories than losses. Here's the view from the field. |
Geotimes May 2003 David Applegate |
Another Stab at Energy Legislation With Republicans now in control of both chambers, energy legislation is a top priority of the House and Senate leadership. |
BusinessWeek April 29, 2010 Laura Litvan |
Will Hispanic Voters Help Harry Reid? Democratic leader Harry Reid moves immigration to the front of the line. |
InternetNews January 19, 2011 |
Reid to Renew Senate Cybersecurity Push Senate majority leader looks to merge competing committee bills to arrive at reform legislation this year, still waiting for the White House to weigh in. |
The Motley Fool September 24, 2004 Rich Smith |
Senate's Cellular Stand The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee approved a bill on the proposed "E411" cell phone directory. Considering that the directory has not even been created yet, the Commerce Committee's opt-in restriction may well kill the idea before it ever gets off the ground. |
Investment Advisor April 1, 2011 Melanie Waddell |
SEC Funding in the Budget Fight Crosshairs Commission may be the biggest casualty as lawmakers continue tussle over the federal budget |
Investment Advisor August 2009 Melanie Waddell |
Healthcare Reform Steamroller Advances House and Senate committees offer health reform bills. Both the House and Senate legislation would likely raise taxes for many. |
The Motley Fool May 29, 2009 Brian Orelli |
The "Naughty List" You Want Your Company On Athenahealth is out with its annual review of how quickly health insurers are paying the claims that doctors make for services. |
Geotimes March 2003 Larry Kennedy |
Scientist on the Hill: An Introduction The author, a professional geologist, talks about the path that has led him to the American Geological Institute's Congressional Science Fellowship, where he is working with U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada on issues ranging from water and other natural resources to drought and climate change. |
BusinessWeek July 23, 2009 Catherine Arnst |
In Most Markets, a Few Health Insurers Dominate A publicly funded plan would increase health-insurance competition, forcing powerful players to bring down costs |
Registered Rep. March 6, 2009 Halah Touryalai |
Federal Regulator For Insurance Firms? Barney Frank says Yes. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank gave insurance lobbying groups something to argue about, saying he wants lawmakers to create an optional federal charter for insurance companies. |
BusinessWeek October 22, 2009 Sasseen & Arnst |
Who Picks Up the Tab for Health Reform Insurers and taxpayers are likely to pay big chunks of the $900 billion bill to overhaul the nation's health-care system. Doctors will feel the least pain. |
BusinessWeek July 2, 2009 Sasse & Weems |
Health-Care Reform: The Rush to Pass a Bad Bill The proposed laws making their way through Congress fail to answer hard, real-life questions about cost and care |
The Motley Fool October 29, 2009 Brian Orelli |
WellPoint Sick for Another Year Good luck in 2011? |
BusinessWeek August 13, 2009 Catherine Arnst |
Health Care: Lessons for America The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care, by T.R. Reid, examines how and why other countries have built more efficient systems than the U.S.'s multi-tiered model. |
Salon.com May 26, 2001 Jake Tapper |
"The Jim Whisperer" Harry Reid, the man most responsible for guiding Sen. Jim Jeffords to a new political identity, has a long history with party-switching. |
The Motley Fool April 22, 2009 Brian Orelli |
UnitedHealth Rocks; Its Stock Doesn't With all the good news floating around, why is UnitedHealth still trading at 7.3 times the middle of this year's guidance? Alas, there's still plenty of uncertainty hanging over the company. |
The Motley Fool August 26, 2009 Brian Orelli |
Could Health-Care Reform Fix Your Sick Portfolio? For the health care sector there may be no greater unknown today than the final shape of health-care reform legislation. |
The Motley Fool February 14, 2008 Rich Smith |
Great Spitzer's Ghost! New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo promises to sue UnitedHealth as part of a wide-ranging investigation into alleged collusion and fraud pervading the health insurance industry. |