Category: Healthcare Sector
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Friday, June 25, 2010
Healthcare Sector the Place to Find Safe Triple-Digit Gains Right Now / Companies / Healthcare Sector
By: DailyWealth
Dr. Steve Sjuggerud writes: Since starting my True Wealth newsletter in 2001, I've avoided buying big U.S. stocks.
I've avoided big-name stocks because I thought they were too expensive. But now, for the first time in my career, I'm finding value in some big U.S. stocks… particularly in one sector.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Nurses are Right about the Problem, but Wrong about the Solution / Politics / Healthcare Sector
By: Mike_Stathis
Last week, more than 14,000 nurses from Minnesota hospitals staged a 1-day walk-out as a sign of protest over excessive patient loads.
The nurses are right about staffing shortages and overloaded responsibilities.
However, their solution – hiring more nurses will add further costs pressures to America’s unsustainable healthcare bubble.
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Wednesday, June 02, 2010
Health Care Sector, the Ultimate Hedge in Economic Crisis / Stock-Markets / Healthcare Sector
By: John_Mauldin
This week we have a really counter-intuitive Outside the Box. I was talking with the editor of Breakthrough Technology Alert, Patrick Cox about health care costs and he made some very interesting observations from new research about health care. It seems healthy people pay more for health care than sick people. I asked him to do a write-up for us. Despite the new health care bill that passed, health care costs are going to go up, not down. And that's a good thing, as Pat explains. You really want to read this.
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Put Patients and Doctors Back in Control of Healthcare / Politics / Healthcare Sector
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
Most everyone agrees that health care in the United States has major problems, the biggest problems relating to skyrocketing costs. No one doubts the system is in need of reform. However, too many in Washington see tighter government controls as the solution. In fact, the problems are rooted in past government controls that created more problems than they solved.
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
What's Really Wrong with the U.S. Health Care Industry / Politics / Healthcare Sector
By: Vijay_Boyapati
On May 3, 2010, I gave a talk to a class of students studying public health policy at the University of Washington. I began the talk by asking the students how many of them believed that the current healthcare system in America was flawed; everyone in the class raised their hand. I then asked how many of them believed that the recently passed healthcare legislation, supported by President Obama, was a step in the right direction in reforming America's healthcare system. Once again, everyone raised their hand.
Friday, April 23, 2010
An Update On Philip Morris: Earnings, Buybacks, Dividends / Companies / Healthcare Sector
By: Kevin_Duffey
PM Earnings -
Philip Morris International, Inc. (PM) reported earnings and scored a “miss” according to most analysts. I typically could care less about whether it was a “beat” or “miss” so that’s all I’m going to say about that. The bottom line is that PM has reiterated that it is on track to achieve earnings growth of at least 10% and bring in EPS of $3.75 to $3.85 for 2010. Based on 2010 EPS of $3.75, a $50 stock price means a price-to-earnings ratio of 13.3.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Killing You with Drugs: Legally / Companies / Healthcare Sector
By: Mike_Stathis
Is there any reason why Pfizer shares are down today?
Just yesterday, shares were trading at ~ $17.30. Today, with the DJIA up by 0.7%, Pfizer is down by nearly 1%.
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Sunday, March 28, 2010
Three Things Investors Really Need to Know About Healthcare Reform / Companies / Healthcare Sector
By: Q1_Publishing
Healthcare reform is now law.
Over the next decade the government will reach further into the private sector than it ever has before.
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
ObamaCare: Soon to be the Worst Bill Passed in U.S. History (Part 1) / Politics / Healthcare Sector
By: Mike_Stathis
With Obama’s healthcare bill ready to sign, democrats are celebrating. Meanwhile, (supposedly) enraged republicans insist payback will come in November. This is part of the typical back-and-forth theatrics staged to galvanize voter support for each party. Please do not allow yourself to be fooled by these games. As the facts show, both parties are essentially the same when it comes to issues that matter most to working-class Americans; free trade and healthcare, as first detailed in America’s Financial Apocalypse.
Friday, January 29, 2010
The FDA Ensuring the Next Disaster in the U.S. / Politics / Healthcare Sector
By: Mike_Stathis
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is like many federal regulatory bodies that were established for the sole purpose of protecting U.S. consumers.
As you might imagine, like other regulatory bodies, a properly functioning FDA is critical for ensuring the nation’s health and safety.
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Sunday, January 24, 2010
Funding Public Health Care With a Publicly Owned Bank, How Canada did it / Politics / Healthcare Sector
By: Ellen_Brown
The story goes that Churchill offered a woman 5 million pounds to sleep with him. She hedged and said they would have to discuss terms. Then he offered her 5 pounds. “Sir!” she said. “What sort of woman do you think I am?” “Madam,” he replied, “We’ve already established that. Now we’re just haggling over the price.”
Saturday, January 23, 2010
How Wall St Destroyed Private Medicine / Politics / Healthcare Sector
By: Paul_Craig_Roberts
At my annual check-up, my doctor handed me a sheet explaining the reasons for office fee increases for Medicare Patients. It is worth reporting at length.
Medicare fixes the prices for Medicare patients’ health care. All office charges for Medicare, including office visit charges, have been set by the Federal government since 1984. In real terms (adjusted for inflation), these fixed prices are less today than they were three decades ago.
Thursday, December 03, 2009
Everybody Wins in Health Care Reform Except You! / Politics / Healthcare Sector
By: DailyWealth
"Everybody wins."
That's my theme for investing in health care in 2010.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Healthcare Sector Strong Bullish Trend Continues / Companies / Healthcare Sector
By: DailyWealth
Another week of debate and uncertainty over health care, another new high for the iShares U.S. Healthcare Providers fund (IHF).Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Healthcare Under Capitalism / Politics / Healthcare Sector
By: Colin_Leys
Leo Panitch and Colin Leys have just brought out the 2010 annual volume of the Socialist Register, Morbid Symptoms: Health Under Capitalism, published by Merlin Press in London, Monthly Review Press in the U.S. and Fernwood Books in Canada. The book provides a path-breaking assessment of health under capitalism, providing a systematic account of the antagonistic relationship between capitalism and human bodies, of how modern healthcare has been deeply penetrated by neoliberal capitalism, and the ways in which healthcare workers, activists and socialists are struggling and pursuing alternative paths of solidarity in human health.
Monday, November 09, 2009
U.S. Healthcare Legislation Investment Impact / Companies / Healthcare Sector
By: Richard_Shaw
Last night the U.S. House of Representatives brought us one large step closer to a national healthcare system. Investors should be cognizant of the financial effects that would follow.
In the extreme short-run, it would be reasonable to assume that the U.S. stock market would react negatively, although short-term price movements are often chaotic. In the intermediate-term, if the legislation goes forward, the healthcare sector should perform at a lower level than in periods prior to national healthcare.
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Are Biotechnology Stocks Heading for A Downturn? / Companies / Healthcare Sector
By: Oakshire_Financial
Science always looks to the future, and there's not much science that's more exciting than biotechnology.
After all, this is the field with big promises for better and longer lives for all of us through applied biology in agriculture, food science, and medicine. But although the term 'biotechnology' is often refers to futuristic genetic engineering, the industry is far broader than genetics alone.
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Saturday, October 31, 2009
Healthcare Company Profits Sensitivity to Obamacare / Companies / Healthcare Sector
By: Richard_Shaw
National healthcare wherever is implemented squeezes prices and profits of the private businesses involved in the system.
Obamacare in the U.S. will be no different. For investors in healthcare companies, it is a good idea to begin to think through which companies will be most severely negatively impacted or least impacted, to potentially make deletions or substitutions.
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Playing the Health Care Sector with ETFs / Stock-Markets / Healthcare Sector
By: Ron_Rowland
We’ve all been waiting on pins and needles to see what kind of health care reform comes out of Washington. Aside from the fact that we’re all patients of one kind or another, health care is a huge part of the economy.
As you might expect with big changes afoot, health care stocks have been bouncing up and down this year. Such volatility can be frightening — but it also brings opportunity for investors who know how to take advantage.
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Health Care Solution Analysis / Politics / Healthcare Sector
By: Submissions
Jonathan K. Solan writes: America’s politicians are proposing “Cures“ for health care at a rapid pace. Each “Cure” is immediately challenged by people and organizations from both ends of the political spectrum. One side says the cure is too expensive, the other side says the cure does not go far enough. All sides say we need more insurance.
Most Americans listen to the arguments and they intuitively know what they don’t like in the proposals, but they hear little in the way of proposals that they intuitively do like. They don’t like hearing higher taxes, forced enrollment in insurance, Government options, and fines for not having insurance. Americans know that the American way is freedom, not government force. Why do the politicians repeatedly turn to the use of force to fix problems?
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