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Boeing, Corning, Ethan Allen Are Big Movers
first-quarter net income rose 4 percent as declines in the price of its liquid crystal display glass moderated. WellPoint Inc ., up $4 at $73.33 The health insurer said that its first-quarter earnings rose about 3 percent, beating Wall
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Health Insurer WellPoint's 1Q Profit Rises 3 Pct
net income and higher forecast WellPoint reported Wednesday helped improve see some upside in the stock. WellPoint Inc .'s first-quarter earnings revenue of $17.86 billion. WellPoint said its acquisition last year
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Stock Market Winners, Losers After the Presidential Election
in this category include Centene and Molina Healthcare. The larger health insurers like UnitedHealth Group, Aetna, and Wellpoint will likely face tougher rules on how they can do business, which could hurt profits. Hospitals Because more people will
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Health care reform winner: Hospital stocks; Loser: Insurers
no mystery of its fear with how health care reform might affect the insurers. Shares of Aetna aet , UnitedHealth unh and WellPoint wlp fell 5%, 6% and 10% respectively after the measure cleared the Supreme Court. While investors have made their initial
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Stocks fall on danger signs from Europe
Stovall told clients in a research note. Meanwhile, a pair of large acquisitions were announced Monday. Health insurer WellPoint is buying managed care provider Amerigroup for about $4.46 billion in cash. And Campbell Soup is buying the carrot and
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Health care fallout: Provider stocks jump, insurers fall
Insurance companies were down sharply as analysts rushed to sort out the ruling. UnitedHealth Group stock UNH fell almost 4%, WellPoint WLP 7% and Aetna AET 4.6%. "The market has spoken appropriately," says Sam Isaly, manager, Eaton Vance Worldwide
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Health Care Ruling: Business Winners, Losersof major insurance companies dropped as analysts sorted through the ruling. UnitedHealth Group declined 3 percent, while WellPoint lost almost 6 percent. Overall, stocks were down today with the Dow Jones industrial average falling 127 points. "Managed
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Supreme Court health care ruling watched by investors
facing the most flux from the rule, it's insurers, says Dave Shove, analyst at BMO. Insurers, such as UnitedHealthcare, WellPoint and Aetna, stand to benefit as more than 30 million additional Americans become potential customers. "It's one of the biggest
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IBM's Watson Supercomputer Gets Job As Oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centersituations and patients' expressed wishes, lifestyle -- all that comes into play when making a high quality medical decision." Wellpoint , an insurance company, also hired Watson last year to guide treatment decisions for members. The Watson computer, pictured
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Golden Parachutes: 21 CEOs Landed $100M PlusTechnologies Corp. George A. L. David 1994-2008 $122,631,309 eBay Inc. Margaret C. Whitman 1998-2008 $120,427,360 WellPoint Health Leonard Schaeffer 1992-2004 $119,041,000 XTO Energy Inc. Bob R. Simpson 1986-2008 $103,485,972 Viacom
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Newt Gingrich Hit on Health Care Flip-Flops, Think Tank
for Health Transformation , which Gingrich founded, raked in millions of dollars from heavy hitters like GE Healthcare and Wellpoint , as first reported by the Washington Post . The group says it does not lobby, but on its website, it touts its ability to build bridges
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Record Number of Fortune 500 Women CEOs
Lynn Elsenhans of Sunoco Ursula Burns of Xerox Ellen Kullman of DuPont Laura Sen of BJ’s Wholesale Club Angela Braly of WellPoint Carol Meyrowitz of The TJX Companies Indra Nooyi of PepsiCo Irene Rosenfeld of Kraft Foods Patricia A. Woertz of Archer Daniels
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Watson, Your New Health Insurer
s largest health insurers. WellPoint Inc ., which operates Blue Cross marketing, said in a statement. “ WellPoint ’s commitment to innovation and textbooks and medical journals, and WellPoint ’s history of treatments to generate
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Stocks Rocket, Salaries Inch Higherreject. People are raised their premium that they if they get sick and say you had pretty weakness yesterday stocks like WellPoint and Aetna. And Cigna. And then on the other hand there are some publicly traded hospital groups like HCA. And T CNN stocks
sick and say you had -- pretty -- weakness yesterday stocks like WellPoint and Aetna. And Cigna. And then on the other hand there are some publicly traded hospital groups like HCA. And T -- -
Supercomputer Watson Cures the Sick?about to get down to serious business the insurance giant WellPoint . Is going to start using Watson to help diagnose and treat 2001. I'm sorry did it. I'm afraid I can't do that. WellPoint insists that won't happen when the computer clocks in next
Watson. Is about to get down to serious business the insurance giant WellPoint . Is going to start using Watson to help diagnose and treat patients. And more than 34 million of us could be affected.like. 2001. I'm sorry did it. I'm afraid I can't do that. WellPoint insists that won't happen when the computer clocks in next year really doctor Watson will serve. As a consultant to positions. Not -
Earthquake Doesn't Shake Wall Street Rallybank has report out taking a look at that's. And saying there is so much in nervousness out there and that the bears are WellPoint of course they have that caveat that things turn out to be better than expected. These guys are going to be caught short
is so much in nervousness out there and that the bears are WellPoint of course they have that caveat that things turn out to be better than expected. These guys are going to be caught -
Jobless Numbers, Best Buy Layoffs Rattle Marketsdefinitely a positive. Print from the Wall Street in terms of what the effects. Of this health care ruling will be names like WellPoint Humana and Pfizer all up again part of today's trade we'll see they continue. All up about 3% just this week alone
what the effects. Of this health care ruling will be names like WellPoint Humana and Pfizer all up again part of today's trade we'll see they continue. All up about 3% just this week alone. -
Toyoda Apologizes, Dodges Tough Questionsmother of two got a letter from WellPoint saying her premium was going up alone a study released today shows WellPoint is now pushing double digit premium in at least eleven states. When WellPoint CEO appeared He quickly got personal
-- -- Henrikson self employed mother of two got a letter from WellPoint saying her premium was going up 300 -- dollars a month. In this economically depressed environment. I find the act of raising premium costs to individual policyholders for such high amounts. Truly unconscionable she's not alone a study released today shows WellPoint is now pushing double digit premium hikes in at least eleven states. When WellPoint CEO appeared He quickly got personal matter how much money do you make. And my salary is one point one million I was I receive stock compensation. Oh with a value of eight point five million and last year at an annual incentive payment of 73000. Dollars. Well of course that makes sense that have that you would need -- -- rate increase. The committee also took game at WellPoint record profit last year I don't mind you making a profit but at the end of the year 2009 -- -- yearwe know it's a hardship on these people. But an email from WellPoint chief actuary suggest the company is pushing the rate hike in California. To achieve quote target profit of 7%. -- 5% this year. Documents obtained by the committee also show WellPoint spent 27 million dollars in 2007 and 2008. And company retreats -- that we -- Hold more sway with your company. Then the health and well being of your subscribers. WellPoint CEO says she does care about her policyholders. That we are on their side we want to you don't feel like -- The Obama administration also wants to hear from WellPoint . Today the health and human services secretary invited the CEOs of all of the top five health insurance companies in the United -
Health Insurance Execs in the Hot Seatmother of two got a letter from WellPoint saying her premium was going up alone a study released today shows WellPoint is now pushing double digit premium in at least eleven states. When WellPoint CEO appeared quickly got personal
-- -- Henrikson self employed mother of two got a letter from WellPoint saying her premium was going up 300 in ten dollars a month. In this economically depressed environment. I find the act of raising premium costs to individual policyholders for such high amounts. Truly unconscionable she's not alone a study released today shows WellPoint is now pushing double digit premium hikes in at least eleven states. When WellPoint CEO appeared -- quickly got personal matter how much money do you make. And my salary is one point one million I was I receive stock compensation. -- with a value of eight point five million and last year at an annual incentive payment of 73000. Dollars. Well of course it makes sense that have that you would need -- -- rate increase. The committee also took game at WellPoint record profit last year I don't mind you making a profit but at the end of the year 2009 a -- yearwe know it's a hardship on these people. But an email from WellPoint chief actuary suggest the company is pushing the rate hike in California. To achieve quote target profit of 7%. -- 5% this year. Documents obtained by the committee also show WellPoint spent 27 million dollars in 2007 and 2008. On company retreats -- -- -- -- hold more sway with your company. Then the health and well being of their subscribers. WellPoint CEO says she does care about her policyholders. That we are on their side we want to you don't feel like -- The Obama administration also wants to hear from WellPoint . Today the health and human services secretary invited the CEOs of all of the top five health insurance companies in the United -
World News (02.24.10)mother of two got a letter from WellPoint saying her premium was going up alone a study released today shows WellPoint is now pushing double digit premium in at least eleven states. When WellPoint CEO appeared quickly got personal
and sexually Henrikson self employed mother of two got a letter from WellPoint saying her premium was going up 300 in ten dollars a month. In this economically depressed environment. I find the act of raising premium costs to individual policyholders for such high amounts. Truly unconscionable she's not alone a study released today shows WellPoint is now pushing double digit premium hikes in at least eleven states. When WellPoint CEO appeared -- quickly got personal matter how much money do you make. And my salary is one point one million I was I received stock compensation. With a value of eight point five million and last year at an annual incentive payment of 73000. Dollars. Well of course that makes sense that have that you would need -- -- rate increase. The committee also took game at WellPoint record profit last year I don't mind you making a profit but at the end of the year 2009 or or year you still made two point something billion dollars and that's not enough actually the company's profits were four point seven billion. In part because it sold a subsidiary. In each of the last five years WellPoint profits have exceeded two billion dollars the company says its profit margin of about 5% is reasonable insurance industry margins are dwarfed7%. -- 5% this year. Documents obtained by the committee also show WellPoint spent 27 million dollars in 2007 in 2008. And company retreats -- that we -- Hold more sway with your company. Then the health and well being of your subscribers. WellPoint CEO says she does care about her policyholders. That we are on their side we want to you don't feel like -- The Obama administration also wants to hear from WellPoint . Today the health and human services secretary invited the CEOs all of the top five health insurance companies in the United States
