Posted by Admin | 8:12 PM

I expected Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy to vote to toss the individual mandate. I had no doubt the other three conservative justice...

Labels: Health Care Earnings, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Posted by Admin | 8:58 PM

When will the Congress and the White House finally make the hard decisions in order come to grips with the federal deficit problem?When will...

Labels: American Debt Crisis, Health Care Earnings, Health Care Reform, Medicare

Posted by Admin | 7:25 AM

Carl McDonald is a Managing Director at Oppenheimer & Company. He is one of the most followed health insurance industry analysts who can...

Labels: Health Care Earnings, Health Care Reform

Posted by Admin | 9:00 AM

Washington Post business page columnist Steven Pearlstein's Friday column, "Toward a New International Capitalism," caught my...

Labels: Health Care Earnings, Health Care Reform

Posted by Admin | 7:06 AM

I have been struck by the optimism regarding private Medicare presented by health plan executives during the recent earnings season and the ...

Labels: Health Care Earnings, Medicare Advantage

Posted by Admin | 9:40 AM

The event I look forward to every year is "Wall Street Comes to Washington," Paul Ginsburg's (Center for Studying Health Syste...

Labels: Health Care Earnings, Health Care Trend

Posted by Admin | 12:35 PM

Here are some comments from a first quarter earnings call Coventry management would sure like to take back.Yesterday, Coventry reported that...

Labels: Health Care Earnings, Health Care Trend

Posted by Admin | 2:05 PM

When WellPoint, Humana, United, and others had earnings warnings this spring I pointed out their issues were largely unrelated and amounted ...

Labels: Health Care Earnings, Medicare Advantage

Posted by Admin | 1:00 PM

I have had two different emails today on the subject of health plan executive compensation.The first cited a link to an article in the Balti...

Labels: Health Care Earnings

Posted by Admin | 11:41 AM

United Health's earnings and revenue grew by 7% this quarter year over year and the stock fell by almost 10% yesterday.I'd hate to s...

Labels: Health Care Earnings, Health Care Trend

Posted by Admin | 10:00 AM

Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) has for years been complaining that non-profit hospitals have lost their way--that the tax benefits they get...

Labels: Health Care Earnings, Nonprofit Hospitals

Posted by Admin | 1:00 PM

The recent hit HMO stocks have taken in the market has come because Wall Street has the jitters over revised earnings outlooks. Many health ...

Labels: Health Care Earnings, Health Care Trend, Medicare Advantage

Posted by Admin | 2:00 PM

Maybe times have been just too good for so long that people have forgotten just what a challenging business this can be.After easy profits f...

Labels: Health Care Earnings, Health Care Trend