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Insurers' profits are a lightning rod for reform advocates. Aetna's earnings have now attracted reprimand from Senate Democrats who say the major insurance company overstated it spending on patient care in regulatory filings, minimizing profits and overhead, The Wall Street Journal reports. "The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation launched an investigation last summer into ...
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., said Tuesday that after much pressure on insurance companies to disclose how money from premiums is spent, Aetna Insurance Co. recently made a $4.9 billion amendment to its 2008 health insurance regulatory filings.
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With reports that Congress is planning to euthanize the contentious public option in its Congressional health care overhaul, some shares in the health care sector are alive and well on Wednesday.
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Senate Democrats agreed to abandon a full government-run insurance program in a bid to remove one of the biggest obstacles to health-care legislation.
Aetna unchanged at $30.47. CIGNA fell $.30 or .9 percent, to $33.55.
DAVID M. HERSZENHORN By expanding Medicare and keeping a government insurance plan only as a backup, Democrats hope to offer something to both liberals and centrists.
With reports that Congress is planning to euthanize the contentious public option in its Congressional healthcare overhaul, some shares in the healthcare sector are alive and well on Wednesday.
The Rev. Al Shaprton is slated to give the keynote address at a special event next week hosted by the Jamaica Business Resource Center that will honor the city’s top business leaders.
Aetna rose $.29 or 1.0 percent, to $30.76. CIGNA fell $.08 or .2 percent, to $33.77.
Mark Jardin. AGB is the organization's international business segment that supports more than 400,000 members worldwide. The company will pay health care professionals such as doctors, nurses and pharmacists to administer the H1N1 flu vaccine to all members at no cost.
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(AP:NEW YORK) Shares of some top managed care companies are up at 10 a.m.: Aetna rose $.43 or 1.4 percent, to $30.90. CIGNA rose $.35 or 1.0 percent, to $34.20.
The Senate health care reform bill looks to be even better than a free ride for the health insurance industry until 2014.
Pharmaceutical companies defended themselves on Tuesday against complaints about rising medicine prices that could reestablish the drug industry as a political target in the U.S. health reform debate.
