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Roto-Rooter Owner Destroyed as DOJ Goes After Hospice Fraud

Posted: May 3, 2013 at 12:05 pm

Chemed Corp. (NYSE: CHE) is a very strange company. Imagine owning the Roto Rooter drain cleaning and plumbing company AND owning a for-profit hospice provider. Now a Department of Justice ...
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Proposed 2014 Medicare Rates Slam Humana and Other Insurers

Posted: February 19, 2013 at 9:00 am

Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is leading the large health insurance providers lower as the week gets off to a start. The news hit going into the weekend that the Centers ...
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Deutsche Bank Raises Targets and Estimates on Hospitals and Health Care Facility Stocks (DB, THC, HCA, VHS, CYH, HMA, UHS, LPNT)

Posted: January 31, 2013 at 8:31 am

Hospitals and health care facilities to most of us are like the police station. You are glad they are there, but you don’t really want to go. When it comes ...
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Jefferies Adds Apple, Celanese, HMS Holdings to Global Conviction List

Posted: January 3, 2013 at 8:00 am

Late Wednesday, Jefferies Group Inc. (NYSE: JEF) added three new domestic names to its Global Conviction buy list. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Celanese Corp. (NYSE: CE) and HMS Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: ...
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Half of Americans Die Broke

Posted: August 29, 2012 at 9:41 am

New research from MIT indicates that nearly half of Americans die with essentially no financial assets. About 46% of U.S. senior citizens hold less than $10,000 in assets at the ...
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Revised Guidance Sinks Health Care Company (CNC, MOH, AGP, UNH, WCG)

Posted: June 11, 2012 at 11:31 am

To say that Centene Corp. (NYSE: CNC), a managed health care provider, has been on a roller coaster ride for the past few days may be an understatement. First, it ...
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Will States Break Pension Promises?

Posted: April 26, 2011 at 5:59 am

The Pew Center on the States released new research that says "The gap between the promises states have made for public employees’ retirement benefits and the money they have set ...
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The Wealthy Will Save Troubled Social Security

Posted: July 29, 2010 at 6:03 am

Many financial experts and analysts believe that the national debt and high deficits will mean that the federal government will have to make tremendous cuts in spending before the end ...
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