Highlights include WellPoint, Inc. (WLP), Humana Inc. (HUM), Coventry Health Care, Inc. (CVH), Health Net Inc. (HNT), Molina Healthcare, Inc. (MOH), Amerigroup Corporation (AGP) and Aetna Inc (AET).The private sector is now partners in healthcare reform.Key healthcare stakeholders met yesterday with President Obama to pledge their support in slowing the rising cost of healthcare over the next decade.  In a letter addressed to the President and signed by the American Medical Association, the Service Employees International Union, and the main trade groups from the drug, hospital, medical-device and health-insurance industries, healthcare industry representatives vowed to stem the rate of increase in future health and insurance costs by 1.5% per year for the next 10 years, or approximately $2 trillion.Although lacking detail, the letter did propose a co-ordinated industry effort in developing strategies toward the following: administrative simplification ...

Union Dental Holdings is focused on providing affordable dentistry for members by utilizing existing insurance benefits. Union Dental currently has networks set up for CWA, IBEW, IUE-CWA, and AFA-CWA. The company’s network currently expands across 15 states and continues to grow.

Union Dental Holdings solidified its position during the past year, even amidst the recession, and became one of the top small-cap turnaround stories of 2008. After recording a loss of almost $1 million during the first 9 months of 2007, the company generated net income of over $24K by the end of Q3 2008 on almost identical revenues of $1.9M.

The annual out-of-pocket savings for an individual union member using the Union Dental network are usually greater than membership dues. As the U.S. population expands and ages, demand for non-discretionary dental services will continue to grow, despite a struggling economy, and should remain steady as long as benefits continue

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