Jade Queen

Healthcare Profits: Assessing Company Sensitivity to Obamacare

The FDA just sent a threatening letter to Dr. Weil for advocating use of an herbal preparation that many use and have reported benefit from.

While Dr. Weil likely won't want them to point their guns at him and take his business, the news of this will pump the herb, which I take myself, prescribed by a Chinese herbalist.

Underground and offshore, ordinary people are using plant analogs for substances now made generally with leftovers from industrial processes.

Attempts to bully particular practitioners with much to lose will work to restrain the businesses of celebrities, but it won't stop word of mouth about what works.

In addition to this phenomenon, Equador has just broken patents, with the acquiescence of some pharmaceutical companies, to manufacture and provide medications it wants for its people at costs they can afford. This is another area where old ways of doing things are breaking down.

Substantial change is evolving rapidly in this area. I didn't even mention side-effect lawsuits, which tend to have gags attached, but putting a gag on a long-term user of psych meds seems maybe as if it might not work perfectly.

Caution seems indeed in order. Thanks for bringing this up.

12 S&P 500 Stocks with Bullish Character in a Bearish Realm

My understanding is that Amazon is providing a venue for the unemployed to set up their own businesses and websites and is serving this segment well. Does anybody have more input on that? I got this as an anecdote from a friend in a communications business, and I checked out whether there was the same buzz by Googling, and it was there. Apparently, Amazon takes a more long-term approach than just the next quarter, and this is paying off in the present situation. This was an interesting post. Thanks.