The popular magazine Men’s Health is best known for its glossy cover shots of guys with six-pack abs and features on diets and workouts so that you, too, can look like Mark Wahlberg (this month’s pin-up), as well as advice on keeping your prostate healthy and your sex drive turbocharged. So when the latest edition [...]
The hedge fund FrontPoint Partners will liquidate its $1.5 billion health care fund in the wake of allegations that a manager at the firm received insider information from a French doctor, a person familiar with the matter said. The fund has been hit with a number of redemption requests following federal criminal and civil charges [...]
Likely Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the former governor of liberal Massachusetts, is not a favorite of tea party activists for 2012. Now a tea party leader has made explicit one reason why. Amy Kremer, president of the influential Tea Party Express, says the health law Romney signed when he was governor will “absolutely not” [...]
Republican leaders acknowledged Sunday that an outright repeal of the health care reform law — something they told voters during the campaign they would try to do — was not within their power while President Obama is in office, but they vowed to pursue a strategy of taking it apart piece-by-piece. “If we can put [...]
President Obama’s health care reform law continues to be unpopular, especially among seniors, and will likely play a major role in Tuesday’s elections. According to a Kaiser Health Tracking poll, “about a third (32 percent) of seniors hold favorable views [of the health care reform bill, and] half (52 percent) [hold] unfavorable views.” The opposition [...]
Two reports out this month shed light on ongoing changes in the health insurance industry. A congressional report released this week shows that the country’s four largest health care companies — Aetna, Humana, WellPoint, and United Health Group — increased their denials of coverage for people with pre-existing conditions by 49 percent from 2007-2009. This [...]
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