Tomorrow morning, UnitedHealth Group will report earnings. I’m no Gordon Gekko, but you can put good money on UHG’s Optum unit delivering record-setting profits, driven in part by its OptumRx
It’s a quiet summer Friday, and I’m going to take advantage of the slow news flow to spend a little extra time on one of my favorite activities: handicapping future
I didn’t realize, when I woke up on Monday morning, that this would be PBM Week — a close cousin to Shark Week — but here we are. There’s a
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Usually, when things break after 9 a.m., I pretend, for the purposes of this newsletter, that they didn’t happen until the next day. I’m not a breaking-news service. I’m just
Hope everyone had a great Independence Day. I’m still reeling a bit from the culture shock of moving from the #2 state for per-capita fireworks purchases to the state that
Notwithstanding the fact that I found plenty to write about today, my expectation is that the rest of the week is going to be kind of quiet. So I’m going
Happy Canada Day to those who celebrate. We stand on guard for thee. I would love to be able to say something deep and prescient about the Supreme Court’s decision