{"id":354283,"date":"2010-02-23T14:27:46","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T19:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/health-insurance-companies-get-creamed-as-white-house-aims-to-end-their-anti-trust-exemption-2010-2"},"modified":"2010-02-23T14:27:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T19:27:46","slug":"health-insurance-companies-get-rocked-as-white-house-aims-to-end-anti-trust-exemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/354283","title":{"rendered":"Health Insurance Companies Get Rocked As White House Aims To End Anti-Trust Exemption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/tenet-healthcare-plummets-as-it-misses-street-expectations-2010-2\">Tenet<\/a> (THC) isn&#8217;t the only company getting slammed today.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of CIGNA Corp. (CI) are down nearly 2% to $32.77,<\/p>\n<p>Also tanking are Aetna Inc. (AET), which is down 1.9% to $28.80 a share, and Humana Inc. (HUM), also down 1.9% to $46.95 a share.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Well, generally because the market is down.<\/p>\n<p>But according to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/chucktodd\">MSNBC&#8217;s Chuck Todd on Twitter<\/a>, press secretary Robert Gibbs just declared Obama&#8217;s desire to end the anti-trust exemption for health insurance companies, as part of Obamacare 2.0. Watch out.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b842a1c0000000000b9d4a2\/gf-healthcare-feb23.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"GF Healthcare Feb23\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/health-insurance-companies-get-creamed-as-white-house-aims-to-end-their-anti-trust-exemption-2010-2#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-revenge-of-obamacare-just-tanked-merck-and-other-pharmaceutical-manufacturers-2010-2\">The Revenge Of Obamacare Just Tanked Merck And Other Pharmaceutical Manufacturers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/what-the-hell-is-carefusion-2009-11\">What The Heck Is CareFusion?                               <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-facebook-fraud-story-gets-bigger-and-bigger-2009-12\">How Health Care Reform Opponents Take Advantage Of Silly Facebook Games<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/9wi1zB0PLf0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tenet (THC) isn&#8217;t the only company getting slammed today. Shares of CIGNA Corp. (CI) are down nearly 2% to $32.77, Also tanking are Aetna Inc. (AET), which is down 1.9% to $28.80 a share, and Humana Inc. (HUM), also down 1.9% to $46.95 a share. Why? Well, generally because the market is down. But according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}