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Determining Potential in Health Care Stocks

I cannot understand why insurers will have trouble competing against not-for-profit companies such as Blue Cross. They have been doing it successfully for many years and in many States. For instance NJ has Horizon Blue Cross and many insurers including Aetna and UNH are competing here very successfully. Their fight with the Congress is to contain the damage and prevent medicare from expanding. I think that the managed care companies will come out very well after the dust has settled on the health care bill.

Aetna: 'Fat' Profits Nowhere to Be Found

There seems to be flaw in this argument. Usually the cost of paying out the claims, i.e., the salaries and benefits and related office costs should all be included in the claims cost. This is consistent with the cost of good sold concept. What is not included in sales and G&A. Could I request the author to review his numbers again.

Pension Underfunding: The Next Earnings Shock?

Are we all focusing too much on the negatives and forget that there is an economy with 300 plus million people? They all have to eat, dress, take medicines for illness, have a roof over their heads, move about from here to there and so on. That should sustain a level of economic activity that, albeit with a lot of pain in the near term, overcome our excesses of the past. Perhaps it is time to start thinking of the positives and move on. Hopefully we would all have learned the lessons from this debacle and behave better, i.e., live within our means and not binge on credit. May be the baby boomer generation, ie mine, which is largely responsible for this mess, may not clean up after itself. But it will certainly own up to its irresponsibility and set in motion the wheels of progress needed to help our successive generations do better.