And in company news, the situation is getting dire for a retailer, seeing credit withdrawn as an accounting scandal threatens to doom the business. That is all ahead. Julie hyman is here. It sounds like the rally is taking a pause. Julie it definitely looks like a pause. Ulie we have seen stocks bounced between gains and losses since the open of trading, and see all three major averages into the red. We have some of the interestrate sensitive sectors like utilities and Real Estate Investment trusts lower along with technology, which you can see by the decline we are seeing. We have some analyst calls from largecap stocks, apple among them. Apple getting a rare downgrade from nomura. The analyst says positives are already priced into the stock, lowering the rating to neutral. Le shares up just 0. 8 apple shares off just zero point percent. Walmart, an analyst getting ready, saying ecommerce can be a competitor to amazon. Finally, General Motors are the third in our trio of largecap stoc
Organization dedicated to advancing knowledge and understanding of Health Policy issues for the policy making community, the media and the surrounding stakeholders in the d. C. Area and beyond. So welcome this morning to those who are joining us live on cspan2 and watching from home. And before we begin, i just want to make a quick note about the dates for the next several breakfasts. Well be doing them about once a month. The next one will be march 29th, and we will be talking about pandemic preparedness. So quite different from todays topic. Today we are delving into the broad topic of shifting dynamics in the Health Care Market, and were going to take a closer look at the issues around market concentration, consolidation and integration. And although there have been a lot of recent headlines about this topic, this is not a new issue in our health care system, and so the panel of experts today is going to help us understand whats happening right now, what the implications are and als
The national anesthesia practice that monopolizes the market in Durango and Denver must terminate exclusive contracts with five CommonSpirit hospitals over the next 60 days, according to terms of an a.
Seven-year-old Emmitt Anderson stood tall in the Wyoming House of Representatives gallery on Feb. 21. With his cowboy hat off and his hand over his heart, he enunciated each word
Colorado’s attorney general is forcing U.S. Anesthesiology Partners, known as USAP, to sever contracts with five hospitals in the state because it created a monopoly in the Denver and Durango markets, forcing patients and their insurance companies to pay higher prices to be sedated during surgeries.