If that word is "disease," it could be billions of dollars. The American Medical Association, or AMA, recently decided to categorize obesity as a disease.
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July 1 - News
Paulson & Co., the hedge fund managed by billionaire John Paulson has been struggling in recent times due to large positions in gold and gold miners.
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June 24 - Hedge Funds
Healthcare was considered a defensive sector during the 2008–09 recession, but I believe it will continue to perform going forward.
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June 18 - News
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, set to go into full effect on Jan 1., is certain to have broad-reaching impacts on the way that insurance companies sell their ...
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June 18 - News
The first full week in June ended with Illinois lawmakers again failing to send Gov.
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June 12 - News
Americans pay a lot for health care.
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June 11 - News
The passage of Obamacare has created uncertainty in the health care sector.
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June 7 - News
Millennium Management, a hedge fund managed by billionaire Israel Englander, filed its 13F for the first quarter of 2013 with the SEC in May.
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June 5 - Hedge Funds
Pentwater Capital Management is a hedge fund founded and managed by Matthew Halbower in 2007.
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June 5 - Hedge Funds
The full implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, is less than seven months away now.
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June 4 - News
The best thing about the stock market is that you can make money in either direction. Historically, stock indexes have tended to trend up over the long term.
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June 4 - News
A few commentators are gleefully proclaiming that Obamacare has received good news from the state of California.
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May 31 - News
Universal American Corporation (NYSE:UAM) is an insurance company headquartered in New York.
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May 30 - News
I will admit: I've tried hard to stay out of the debate that has raged on for years around the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare.
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May 29 - News
Excited or not, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, is set to be fully implemented in just six months and one week.
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May 24 - News
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would put heart disease at the top of the list, since it's the leading cause of death in the nation.
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May 14 - News
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, perhaps better known as Obamacare, is certainly one of the most controversial pieces of legislation to come out of the Obama administration...
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May 13 - News
Greenlight Capital is a fund-management firm led by David Einhorn, one of the most successful managers of the past decade.
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May 10 - Hedge Funds
Managed health care is an industry which is the most vulnerable to government policies.
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May 6 - News
Insiders have information about a company which is not available to outside investors.
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May 2 - News
The Affordable Care Act will require certain changes in the market with regards to insurance coverage, employment benefits, and the cost of hiring employees.
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April 22 - News
The social health and financial buffer put in place in the United States to protect the basic human needs of all individuals, collectively known as welfare, is gigantic.
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April 21 - News
Earnings season has been a mixed bag for the market's biggest stocks so far, with some major companies reporting stellar results while others have endured the wrath of disappointed...
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April 18 - News
The state has pursued an expansion alternative using federal money for private insurance to cover the newly eligible.
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April 18 - News
Only one hurdle remains for Obamacare to head for the hills -- the hills of Arkansas, that is.
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April 17 - News
Love it or hate it, Obamacare is now the American health care system. But even ardent supporters acknowledge that it's not perfect.
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April 14 - News
Medicaid has stayed at the forefront of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or "Obamacare," debate thanks to the number of states still battling against the proposed...
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April 10 - News
The Affordable Care Act has promised that everyone will have individual health insurance.
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April 8 - News
Is Aetna Inc. (NYSE:AET) the right pick for your portfolio? The smart money is getting less bullish. The number of long hedge fund positions were cut by 8 in recent months.
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April 5 - News
Yesterday's Automatic Data Processing (NASDAQ:ADP) employment data may not have struck a chord with optimists, and North Korean tensions appear to be escalating, but that didn...
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April 4 - News
There's more in Obamacare than you might think.
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April 3 - News
True insurance protects against catastrophic losses.
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March 28 - News
I've heard this clever quip about health care reform many times before, but this quote by J.P.
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March 27 - News
The Affordable Care Act hoped to broaden Medicaid to include any patients under the age of 65 with earnings that fall below 133% of the federal poverty level.
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March 25 - News
Billionaire David Einhorn, founder of value-oriented hedge fund Greenlight Capital, managed to return some 21.5% annually through 2010 (since he started Greenlight in 1991). ...
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March 19 - Hedge Funds
When doing a recent examination of my portfolio, I realized that I had no exposure to the healthcare sector.
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March 18 - News
There are a lot of questions about how the new healthcare laws will impact insurance companies.
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March 16 - News
The Affordable Care Act, colloquially known as Obamacare, completely changed how people get health care.
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March 15 - News
Health care reform has caused investors to become anxious about the future of companies tied to the health care industry.
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March 13 - News
We track 13F filings from hedge funds and attempt to find ways to make the provided information useful despite the inherent lag (these filings disclose many of a hedge fund’...
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March 11 - Hedge Funds
According to a filing with the SEC, Eric Wiseman, who sits on the Board of Directors at health insurer Cigna Corporation (NYSE:CI), directly purchased 4,200 shares of the company...
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March 11 - Insider Trading
That's hardly the most shocking statistic of the obesity epidemic, America's most serious ongoing crisis.
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March 10 - News
News about the Affordable Care Act continues floods the headlines, as health care providers, insurers, and government officials attempt to get things in place for the laws major...
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March 10 - News
Will investors viewing Obamacare as a boon for health insurers regret their enthusiasm? Only time will tell if the law pays off for these companies, but recent developments suggest...
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March 8 - News
As you've probably heard by now, founder and CEO Andrew Mason was ushered out yesterday by the board after the daily deals specialist posted another dismal quarter.
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March 4 - News
While the federal government now gets to deal with "massive" budget cuts of around 2.3% of total annual federal spending put into law by President Obama and Congress, some investors...
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March 1 - News
A new study released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services indicates that the rise of health insurance premiums year-to-year is slowing significantly.
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February 25 - News
Earnings season is now starting to wind down, with most companies already having reported their quarterly results.
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February 24 - News
So elections have consequences. Any old political watcher (that's me, for those of you playing at home) knows that.
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February 21 - News
