UnitedHealth’s Splish Beats CVS-Aetna’s Splash
Bloomberg Gadfly - By Brooke Sutherland Max Nisen - Dec 6, 2017 11:52 AM EST UnitedHealth Group Inc. is that kid in school who's always doing better than you.The $214 billion company…
On children’s health coverage, congressional inaction has brought us to the ‘nightmare scenario’
LA TIMES - Micahel Hiltzik- November 27, 2017 Child healthcare advocates have been warning, and warning, and warning that Congress’ delay on reauthorizing funds for the Children’s Health Insurance Program…
Amazon’s cloud is about to announce a huge health-care deal with Cerner
CNBC- Christina Farr | Jordan Novet Published 11:21 AM ET Wed, 22 Nov 2017 Updated 1:22 PM ET Wed, 22 Nov 2017 Amazon's cloud unit to partner with Cerner: Sources Amazon's…
Insurers make billions off Medicaid in California during Obamacare expansion
Los Angeles Times - Chad Terhune and Anna Gorman- NOVEMBER 6, 2017 Medicaid is rarely associated with getting rich. The patients are poor, the budgets tight and payments to doctors…
Wall Street Sees a CVS, Aetna Deal as a Revolutionary Defense
Bloomberg - By Cristin Flanagan October 27, 2017, 7:56 AM PDT Speculation that CVS Health Corp may be making a play to buy Aetna Inc yesterday followed hot on the heels of…
Medicare for All or State Control: Health Care Plans Go to Extremes
NY Times - By ROBERT PEAR- SEPT. 13, 2017 WASHINGTON — In one Senate office building, some of the leading lights of the Democratic Party gathered Wednesday to embrace what was…
States hurry to fix health-insurance markets
The Economist- Aug 31st 2017 | WASHINGTON, DC Though insurers remain, Obamacare is teetering in places NOT long ago, America’s health-insurance markets seemed to be drying up. In June 49 counties…
Trump to make August cost-sharing payments to health insurers.
REUTERS- Yasmeen Abutaleb #POLITICS AUGUST 16, 2017 / 12:53 PM / WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration will make cost-sharing payments to insurance companies under Obamacare for August, a White House spokesman…
Soaring Health Insurance Profits Add Intrigue To Obamacare Debate
Hartford Courant - Dan Haar- August 10,2017 It was a tense winter for Aetna, Cigna and the other giant national managed health care companies. Their mega-mergers collapsed in lawsuits by…
Covered California premiums will rise 12.5%, and Anthem Blue Cross cuts coverage
Los Angeles Times- Soumya Karlamangla Contact Reporter -August 1, 2017 @ 4:15pm Amid uncertainty over the future of the Affordable Care Act, California officials announced Tuesday that monthly premiums for health…
