A rumor from Washington appeared to juice options activity in health-care providers' stock Thursday, and stoked share gains as well. Options traders made bullish bets on the sector, and on insurance companies in particular, early in the ...
From the Reason Foundation Gov. Scott Walker leads Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett 50-42 among those likely to vote in Wisconsin's June 5 recall election, according to a new Reason-Rupe poll of 708 Wisconsin adults on cell phones and landlines.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Retirement health-care costs are enough to cause a severe anxiety attack. Even with Medicare benefits, a 65-year-old couple retiring in 2012 will spend at least $240,000 in retirement, according to the latest ...
BOSTON—Massachusetts is laying the groundwork for an ambitious new effort to rein in health spending that would be closely watched nationally in a state that's become a health-policy bellwether.
A health-care consultant was sentenced to two years in prison Tuesday, following his guilty plea earlier this year in a wide-ranging corruption scheme that ensnared two prominent Brooklyn politicians.
Congressional Republicans are divided over what to do if the Supreme Court strikes down all or part of the health-care overhaul next month. House Republican freshmen from moderate districts say they need to have credible alternatives to ...
Top stories in today's VentureWire: General Catalyst Partners, a firm known for bankrolling technology concerns, is making a push into health care, launching and funding life sciences start-ups and backing some mature companies, VentureWire ...
Facing a struggling economy and political headwinds, health-care stocks haven't packed quite the same punch this year as they did in 2011. Last year, health care was one of the S&P 500 index's top-performing sectors. This year, the ...
It's anyone guess how the U.S. Supreme Court will rule on controversial health-care legislation known by its nickname, Obamacare. Officially called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the law, which requires that all ...
When Phillip M. Seligman was a graduate student studying Near Eastern ancient history in the 1970s, the academic job market wasn't promising. So he took his bent for research to Wall Street instead.
The University of Notre Dame, the Archdiocese of New York and 41 other Roman Catholic institutions sued the Obama administration in federal court Monday, the latest push against a requirement in the health-care-overhaul law that employers ...
Two state assemblymen are training their sights on the municipal agencies known as healthcare districts, arguing they are outdated institutions whose funds would be put to better use helping county health systems.