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Health benefit provider WellPoint (NYSE: WLP) announced on Monday it is acquiring managed healthcare company AMERIGROUP Corporation (NYSE: AGP) for approximately $4.9 billion in cash, or $92 for each share outstanding. Both companies jointly stated that they had entered into a definitive...

Health care stocks and ETFs are in the spotlight ahead of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on the Affordable Care Act, expected on Thursday. The court is likely to hand down one of three outcomes: keep Obamacare intact as-is, rule the individual mandate unconstitutional - thereby striking down the...

The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to issue its final ruling on the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, on Thursday. The looming decision has health care stocks and ETFs under the microscope. The Affordable Care Act, the most sweeping piece of health care legislation the U.S. has seen...

This weekend in Barron's online: a midyear updated on the markets, the likely effects of the Supreme Court's ruling on Obamacare, and the prospects for alternative ETFs and Time Warner. Cover Story "Caution: Sharp Turns Ahead" by Lauren R. Rublin. It is time for Barron's midyear update, which is...

We're approaching the point where the rubber meets the road regarding Obamacare.I. Political ImplicationsColumnist and commentator George Will recently discussed some of the political and legal implications of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). Will: "Hitherto, most attention has been given to...

"They that are discontented under monarchy call it tyranny, and they that are displeased with aristocracy call it oligarchy; so also, they which find themselves grieved under a democracy call it anarchy." ~Thomas Hobbes In the 17th century, the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes wrote of the...

As the battle over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as "Obamacare," rages on at the U.S. Supreme Court it pays to remember that this is a political issue. It also pays to remember that Washington, D.C. isn't Las Vegas, meaning what happens in D.C., unfortunately, doesn't...

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments about the Constitutionality of the "2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," also known as Obamacare. The law is being challenged by 26 states on grounds that Congress is overstepping its bounds in attempting to apply its power to regulate...

It feels as if it was only yesterday that incoming President Obama was touting the virtues of making the healthcare system more efficient through the utilization of technology. I vividly remember shares of Cerner (NASDAQ: CERN), AthenaHealth (NASDAQ: ATHN), and McKesson (NYSE: MCK) catching nice...

According to a recent CNN article, approximately 2.5 million more young adults in the United States are now receiving health coverage as a part of President Obama's healthcare reform, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. A part of the reform that became effective in September allows...

"You can't get a grip if there's nothing to hold." ~MGMT, from "Flash Delirium" What is the wealth gap between younger and older Americans, and what does this situation portend for the future?The Associated Press' Hope Yen reported Monday that the wealth gap between the young and the old in the...