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Office of Minority Health Targeted as RFK Jr. Drives Deep Cuts Across CMS
Saturday, April 5, 2025 - 4:20pm | 443The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has reportedly eliminated jobs in multiple key divisions, including its Office of Minority Health, as part of a sweeping restructuring effort led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. During a virtual all-hands meeting on...
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Healthcare Investors Bet On Easier Medicare Rules Under Potential Trump Administration
Wednesday, July 17, 2024 - 4:09pm | 487Healthcare investors are expecting Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to ease regulations on Medicare Advantage if the former president wins and returns to the White House. Under the Biden administration, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has hardened its stance on the...
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Alere And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Friday, November 4, 2016 - 4:07pm | 412One of Friday's hot-button stocks was Alere Inc (NYSE: ALR), which plunged about 16 percent at one point in time. There are two predominant reasons for such a sharp reaction from investors. Why The Drop? One catalyst for the negative stock movement is the results miss and the other one is even...
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How to Profit from Exploding Government Healthcare Costs
Thursday, July 28, 2011 - 9:37am | 576A report released on Thursday predicts that government spending on healthcare will rise dramatically over the next decade. Despite all the talk in Washington about cutting hundreds of billions of dollars in annual spending in order to reduce the deficit, the government's share of the national...