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20 hrs ago | WATE-TV Knoxville

What you should know if you're considering alternative medical treatments

More people are turning to alternative medicine in the hopes of saving money. While conventional doctors still consider holistic treatments outside the norm, some insurance companies cover some therapies.

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Related Topix: Insurance

Thu Nov 12, 2009

Myrtle Beach Online

NC employee health plan still has higher claims

The health insurance plan for North Carolina state employees is still paying out more claims than budgeted for the first three months of the fiscal year.

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Related Topix: Health Insurance, Health, Retail, Wal Mart Stores, Insurance, Healthcare Law, Law, Medicare

Wed Nov 11, 2009

News Democrat

There's more than one way to skin this cat

If, as the variation on the British adage states, "There's more than one way to skin a cat," there's also more than one way to lose our liberty.

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Related Topix: Insurance, Representative John Yarmuth, US Politics, Ben Chandler, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Kentucky, Opinion

Mon Nov 09, 2009

The Courier-Journal

Profits over reform?

Humana Inc. said third-quarter net income climbed 65 percent to $301.5 million, or $1.78 a share, as revenue rose 8 percent to $7.72 billion.

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Related Topix: Insurance, US News, Louisville, KY, Health, AARP, Medicare

Sun Nov 08, 2009

Market Watch

Humana sees 2010 profit fall after 65% net rise

Earnings rose more quickly than sales due to year-earlier hits on investments and sales of distressed financial institution securities.

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Related Topix: Insurance

Sat Nov 07, 2009

CJR Daily

A Step Too Far?

The Los Angeles Times provoked gasps last April when it took the once-controversial idea of front page advertising one misstep further.

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Related Topix: Insurance, Journalism

Fri Nov 06, 2009

MarketWatch

Before the Bell: CIT Group, Ford, Sysco in the spotlight

U.S. stock futures pointed to a solid open Monday after strong results from Ford Motor Co.

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Related Topix: CIT Group, Financial Services, Financial Markets, Nordstrom, Retail, Apparel, Food, SYSCO, Insurance

Thu Nov 05, 2009

MarketNewsVideo

Humana Earnings Surge, Forecasts Earnings to Shrink in 2010

Humana earnings surged 65 percent in the third quarter, to $301.5 million, or $1.78 per share, as compared to $183 million, or $1.09 per share, in the same quarter last year.

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Related Topix: Insurance, Medicare, Health, Video, Business News

Wed Nov 04, 2009

San Antonio Business Journal

Humana inks expanded pact with Texsan

Texsan Heart Hospital will provide in-network medical care to all Medicare Advantage members enrolled with Humana Inc.

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Related Topix: Insurance, San Antonio Metro

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Blogging Stocks

Tenet Healthcare swings to a Q3 loss; Humana profit jumps 65%

While the debate over health care reform rages on, hospital operator Tenet Healthcare Corp.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Tenet Healthcare Corporation, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry, Insurance

Omaha World-Herald

Bridgestone cuts ties to race series

Bridgestone Corp. says it will stop supplying tires for Formula One racing in 2011.

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Related Topix: Rubber-Plastics, Manufacturing, Industrial Machines, Insurance, Berkshire Hathaway

Bloomberg

Humana Profit Jump Explains Insurer's Health Bill Opposition, Reid Says

Humana Inc.a s 65 percent rise in third-quarter profit explains the insurera s opposition to legislation in the Congress to overhaul the U.S. health-care system, said Jim Manley , a spokesman for U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid .

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Related Topix: Insurance, Healthcare Law, Law, US News, Louisville, KY, Medicare, Health, US Politics, US Senate, Republican, Mitch McConnell

Mon Nov 02, 2009

SchaeffersResearch.com Daily Market Blog

Expectations Low Among Humana Options Traders

Shares of health care concern Humana Inc. could come under fire today. The company reported that third-quarter net income rose 65% to $1.78 per share, ahead of Wall Street's expectations, but HUM placed its 2010 outlook at a profit of between $5.05 and $5.25 per share.

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Related Topix: Insurance, Financial Markets, Personal Finance, Day Trading

Asbury Park Press Online

Humana 3Q profit jumps on government programs

Health insurer Humana Inc. rode its strong government business in posting a 65 percent jump in third-quarter profit Monday, as bulging membership and premiums from Medicare Advantage overcame a lackluster commercial segment hampered by the weak economy.

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Related Topix: Insurance, Healthcare Law, Law

MarketWatch

Earnings Watch: Updates, advisories and surprises

Nice Systems Ltd., /quotes/comstock/15*!nice /quotes/nls/nice the Ra'anana, Israel, provider of digital recording and archiving solutions for industrial and security applications, reported that third-quarter net income fell 29%, with adjusted profit down 10%. Earnings were $7.8 million, or 12 cents a share, compared with $10.9 million, or 18 cents, ...

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Related Topix: Watches, Media, Computers, FactSet Research Systems, IT Services, Northeast Utilities Systems, Energy, MarketWatch, Startups, Hartford Metro, Insurance

Sat Oct 31, 2009

MarketWatch

Health insurers up after opt-out proposed

A day after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid proposed an "opt-out" public option plan, health-care insurers climbed Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Beverages, UnitedHealth Group, Insurance, Health Net, H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health

Thu Oct 29, 2009

WAVE-TV Louisville

Protestors pack Humana lobby calling for healthcare reform

Business owners, students and activists were among those near the intersection of Fifth and Main Streets Thursday.

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Related Topix: Insurance

The Courier-Journal

'Public option' likely won't survive health-care debate, expert tells Louisville crowd

The proposed "public option" government insurance plan favored by liberal Democrats probably will not make it through Congress, a leading expert on the economics of health care told a Louisville business group Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Louisville, KY, Princeton University, Healthcare Law, Law, Insurance

Tue Oct 27, 2009

GretaWire

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Just part of a grand scheme to control American lives by creating A World Bank, Gobal Government, a Health Care System that can control and get rid of the Old People allowing A worldwide regime controlled by an unelected corporate elite to implement a planetary carbon tax system that will dominate all human activity and establish a system of ...

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Related Topix: Insurance

Mon Oct 26, 2009

East Valley Tribune

Obama takes aim at critics' free speech

One way or another, the Obama administration is trying to shut up its critics, and if that requires plopping First Amendment free-speech guarantees into a six-foot grave and covering the principles up with mud, so be it.

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Related Topix: Insurance, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama

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