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  • ETF Ideas for Obama's Healthcare and Energy Policies [View article]
    I do not see you contemplating our new administration setting up Marxists, Communists and Socialists protocols. If that were the case... More »
    Comment by NEOCON47
    Nov 15 21:16 pm |
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  • ETF Ideas for Obama's Healthcare and Energy Policies [View article]
    I would caution someone looking at increases in brand name pharmaceuticals, that the newly insured population will not likely add as... More »
    Comment by ncalmd
    Nov 15 09:12 am |
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  • Sector ETF strength early on: Clean Energy– PBW +3.1%. Biotech– BBH +2.6%.... [View news story]
    Dow 10000! Dow 10000! Break out the hats.
    Comment by herbert hoover
    Nov 5 10:40 am |
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  • Bio-Pharma, Diagnostics Buyout Binge Begins [View article]
    Hi Mike - not sure how often you upday this link but I was hoping you give us an update on JAV - I know they have two more drugs in... More »
    Comment by researchbio48
    Nov 2 10:51 am |
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  • Healthcare, Pharma and Biotech ETFs [View article]
    You made some good points there.
    Comment by nosubhealth
    Oct 22 09:26 am |
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  • Grading ETF Risk: Why Tech, Biotech ETFs Are Half as Risky as Financial Cousins [View article]
    Volatility is not the same as risk, unless you are buying at the top.
    Comment by Alan Young
    Sep 24 14:17 pm |
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  • Pundits Are Wrong: Healthcare Reform Will Increase Profits [View article]
    Really informative article regarding this sector. Yahoo Finance has some great information if anyone is looking to invest in health care... More »
    Comment by meridian575
    Sep 21 13:59 pm |
    Rating: +1 -1
  • Pundits Are Wrong: Healthcare Reform Will Increase Profits [View article]
    very informative interview at healthaffairs.org blog with the physician/CEO of Gunderson Lutheran Health System in La Crosse, WI. ... More »
    Comment by jay brebner
    Sep 19 12:34 pm |
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  • Pundits Are Wrong: Healthcare Reform Will Increase Profits [View article]
    Get rid of the FDA? That would suit me. The Lasik example is simply that, of what can happen in a micro-economic situation. There's... More »
    Comment by Guitanguran
    Sep 18 14:51 pm |
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  • Pundits Are Wrong: Healthcare Reform Will Increase Profits [View article]
    Guitanguran - I agree with you that free markets might work in healthcare, but not under the current situations. For a free market to... More »
    Comment by JCC
    Sep 18 14:36 pm |
    Rating: +1 -1
  • Pundits Are Wrong: Healthcare Reform Will Increase Profits [View article]
    King... The gov't plan is not competing (in the real sense of the word) with private health plan. They are taking taxes (other people's... More »
    Comment by Thomas J. Gordon
    Sep 18 13:25 pm |
    Rating: +1 -2
  • Pundits Are Wrong: Healthcare Reform Will Increase Profits [View article]
    two things: Free markets can work in healthcare. Consider Lasik surgery. As out of pocket expense, the consumer (patient) has to... More »
    Comment by Guitanguran
    Sep 18 13:19 pm |
    Rating: +1 -1
  • Pundits Are Wrong: Healthcare Reform Will Increase Profits [View article]
    The freemarket zealots get their asses soundly kicked in this debate.. The US is the only first-tier economy in the world without a... More »
    Comment by zagrebzagreb
    Sep 18 12:31 pm |
    Rating: +1 -1
  • Pundits Are Wrong: Healthcare Reform Will Increase Profits [View article]
    The ENTIRE purpose of reforming the U.S. health-care system is that the U.S. system currently provides LESS "health care" than all other... More »
    Comment by Jeff Nielson
    Sep 18 12:31 pm |
    Rating: +2 -3
  • Pundits Are Wrong: Healthcare Reform Will Increase Profits [View article]
    OK Wisdom - In the US the government currently pays ~50% of healthcare costs. Insurance companies pay 35%. The rest is out of pocket.... More »
    Comment by JCC
    Sep 18 11:38 am |
    Rating: +1 -1