we tend to focus on a couple of companies, but i look at a united health that pulled back from the affordable care, i look at travelers, which has pulled back from writing some insurance that's not that good, u.s. competitive, and i say these are the stars. when you talk about the unsung stars, no one wants to talk about these companies. they just make money. they buy back stock, they do better-than-expected earnings, and they are gems. >> let's get micro in just a second but let's go quickly to macro. last night on "mad" you said the fed would set us free. we know april is likely off the table, so put the fed aside. let's make a deal, america, we won't say fed for 60 days. what is going to then be the most important thing for the market? is it the stabilization of oil? is it going to be actually, dare i say, earnings? is it going to be mario draghi? >> you know what, i'm actually -- >> or "d," all of the above? >> looking back, a lot of times i like to look back at what was said a year ago and i picked up a good piece by michael semliss ", i own the market." for years, he was saying europe w

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>> that didn't go away. >> no. >> yrm not very much. >> we haven't had a stop-loss. >> not the united healthare no stop-loss. >> i feel we're taking something away. >> no nothing that's it. >> and the stop-loss on the flex time funds from the contingency reserve now pay the premium yes, sir. >> it seems like there would be been helpful to point out on the deck we have stop-loss protection on the flex opportunity the first slide suggests there, there are 3 programs and your remdz no stop-loss beyond the stop-loss coverage we already have. >> yes. >> fully noted, sir absolutely understood. >> i'll be curious to find out what the premium is. >> the future. >> yes. >> or the next meeting. >> okay. >> when he rate we'll absolutely review the stop-loss deck. >> we'll be receiving reviewing that administrative line that went opt out last year because of the 2 point something million dollars in hid tax and look at that administration line and it is in that line that the stop-loss for the flex plan is built in. >> yeah. in the april that was presented for blue shield that itemized it i have it we pre

. >> united health has struck a deal to ease customer's access to drugs.ill be able to pick up 90-day prescriptions at walgreens pharmacies. >>> when it comes to school breakfast, two is better than none. that's according to a new report in the journal pediatric obesity. they found weight gain among students who ate double breakfast was no different than that seen among others. but it doubled with those who skipped breakfast. there had been a theory that it was contributing to obesity. >>> neighborhood rats are thought to harm the health of those who live in the neighborhoods. a study found rats can be as depressing as crime or abandoned buildings. >>> they will replace the industry bred chickens to yield better tasting meats. from the nasdaq, i'm jane king. >>> someone who bought a super lotto plus ticket in san jose is $9 million richer. the winner has yet to come forward. the store will receive $45,000 for selling that ticket. here are the winning numbers, 15, 19, 37, 22, 46, and mega number 10. >> we've been doing it wrong. we only play when it gets ov

what was the average prophet margin of united health after tax? >> four, five come 6% perhaps. >> relatively low. on average public corporations have 10% average not a wildly profitable or outrageously profitable. >> that's correct. >> i know you are new to this issue, from your standpoint would you have real concerns as the private sector and sure that under the old system when the government set up a bunch of these co-ops they were going to subsidize them with these risk corridors these reinsurance plans? weren't you concerned that maybe these co-ops might tend to gain market share by underpricing the premiums? >> you ask a really good and difficult question. >> i would like just a basic obvious answer to it. from the private sector. isn't that a legitimate -- isn't that exactly what happened? >> these companies entered markets that had no new competitors in some cases in decades to your crack the company would not like to see someone come in and offer more. >> what was the natural result of what was going to happen with these government-run co-

united health is interested. you're kind -- you're getting anthem. the big companies are trying to say, listen, you can do this. >> 98% of private payers cover cgm in the u.s. now. we're trying to move them to the pharmacy benefit. we have contracts where the patients can go to the local drugstore and pick it up rather than the process of going through it now. much easier and much better service for the patients. >> i was surprised to see you launched this. worldwide. this wasn't use the united states. there are a lot of countries in the europe that are saying, sure, we reimburse. >> reimbursement in europe is coming. sweden has been very, very well this year. coming in some other countries. we did launch it worldwide. this is first time we have done that as we said on our call. that was a big stretch for us. >> yes. >> big stretch. so we're learning. >> well t other thing that surprised me, you play with a totally open hand. you talk directly about the competition. you talked about the avid product and the medtronic product. and i mean, you're just

but we have much more to do in health care. united states is the only major country on earth that does not guarantee health care to all people as a right. and together, we are going to end that. 29 million americans have no health insurance. many of you are underinsured with large deductibles and copayments. and the drug companies are ripping all of us off every single day. and after all of that, we end up spending much more per capita on health care than any other country on earth. we are prepared to take on the private insurance companies. we are prepared to take on the drug companies. and we are prepared to pass a medicare for all single payer programs. [cheering] bernie! bernie! bernie! bernie! bernie! bernie! >> in my view, in my view, something i believed my whole life. health care is a right of all people, not a privilege. [cheering] we are prepared to reform in a major way a broken criminal justice system. it is an international embarrassment that we have more people in jail than any other country on earth. it is not unrelated

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united health. we track that on an intraday basis. travelers also on the upside here. so most of the new highs recently have been consumer names. this might start to change if we keep the market movesing forward at this point. broad rally. energy, tech, staples, industrials, everything to the upside. health care is the laggard. biotech being used as a source of funds out there. what is also interesting is we're getting modest moves up on the weak dollar play. but maybe not as much as you think. this say much broader rally than play the week dollar. if you look at the commodity names, you see some of them up a little bit. alcoa was positive. it turned negative a moment ago. this is not a weak dollar rally. my point is it is a lot broader than that. finally, the insurers, met life, u.s. district court, metlife, not a systemically important financial institution and that's big news for them and maybe some of the other insurers. >> where is the market headed from here? is the next stop for the dow 18,000 or could we go back down and test 17 grand? let's bring in charlie bo

. >> you came from optima, a division of united health?>> yes, sir. >> what was the average profit margin of united health? after tax? >> 4%, 5%, 6%, perhaps. >> relatively low. on average, public cooperations have pre-tax about 10%, after tax about 5%, correct? not a wildly profitable or outrageously profitable type of industry, correct? >> that's correct. >> from your standpoint, i know you are new to the position, wouldn't you have kind of real concerns as a private sector insurer under the old system that when the government set up a bunch of these co-ops, that they were going to subsidize them with these risk corridors and reinsurance plans? weren't you a little concerned that maybe these co-ops might try to gain market share by underpricing their premiums? >> so you know, you ask a really good, difficult question. >> i would like just a basic obvious answer to it. from the private sector. isn't that a real legitimate concern? isn't that exactly what happened? >> well, so these companies entered markets that had not had new competitor

at a united health care i'm not in a rush to buy the bio techs until we get more clarity these are the poster children for the move from growth into value. >> it condition be all about politics. yes, hillary clinton's tweets may have started the clyde but it cannot be all about politics as to why these stocks can't do anything. >> right. well, it's what happened with valeant and having it go from a $30 billion stock at the beginning of the week to $9 billion. there's a lot of ugliness in the space and and this week i bought bristol myers. i was out of it the next day. those were bio techs but i was trying to pick the safer picks and even those blew up. the only trade that did it all was buying when we got down to the double bottom around the 240 level. >> did you buy regeneron. >> no wasn't me but i am already out of it. i'm shortening my name frame. >> still shortening the towel here or look for opportunity. >> i'm amazed when you think about 85% still above the short-term moving average which is incredible to have that much of the market that close to at least the year high and then

it's the first of its kind in the united states. health specialist kathy walsh has this woman's incredible story. >>reporter: at 16, this woman told she couldn't bare a child. >> from that moment on, i've prayed that god would allow me the opportunity to experience pregnancy. and here we are today at the beginning of that journey. >> lindsay was born without a uterus. she's the first patient in the u.s. to receive a uterus transplant. >> it involves a healthy uterus from the decease. the uterus is cool, transported and implanted into the recipient. >> the ground breaking 9-hour surgery was performed last month at the cleveland clinic. she's one of ten who qualified. >> women crave the experience of carrying their own pregnancy. >> lindsay will have to wait a year before getting pregnant through -- after one or two pregnancies, they'll remove the drugs for the rest of her life. >> it provided me with a gift i will never be able to repay. >> that was kathy walsh reporting. lindsay and her husband have three adopted sons. her surgery marks th

. >>> united states health officials are warning the risk of zika virus in cuba ahead of the trip for president obama. the island to the travel notice for the virus. the obama administration said the zika virus hasn't been a factor in the president's travel decisions and is not expected to be in the future. it's a mosquito-bourne illness that is impacting much of the world, especially brazil. the cdc said pregnant women are the most at risk. grit can cause birth defects and adult paralysis. there is six confirmed cases in north carolina so far. >> and the irs issued a consumer alert saying it's seen a surge in cameras trying to take your mean -- money this tax season and thieves are sending out e-mails and -- aimed at getting your personal information. the irs includes that it may include malware that can affect your computer. and the agency has seen in about 400% increase in fishing and malware incidents compared to last year. taxpayers by e-mail. >>> and in the last 10 minutes, a candlelight prayer vigil started for columbus cj simons in concord. police say he was shot to death last

they are calling the island ground zero in the fight against zika in the united states. health officials are predicting 1 in 5 could be infected. the fda is in the process of shipping blood to puerto rico over fears the locall supplies could be contaminated. 156 cases have been acquire on that island. an american student abroad in israel was stabbed to death. taylor force is his name, a student at vanderbilt was walking the boardwalk near tel-aviv when he was attacked. nine others were stabbed by the same person that night. police eventually killed the attacker. officials say there were two other terror attacks on the same day. the student was in israel to start about a start-up company. this wednesday morning, 5:52. still ahead, a florida mayor is planning to visit cuba. new fresh step with the power of febreze. odor control worth celebrating. pet moments are beautiful, unless you have allergies. then your eyes may see it differently. only flonase is approved to relieve both your itchy, watery eyes and congestion. complete allergy relief or ininmplete. let your eyes decide. fl

>> that didn't go away. >> no. >> yrm not very much. >> we haven't had a stop-loss. >> not the united healthe no stop-loss. >> i feel we're taking something away. >> no nothing that's it. >> and the stop-loss on the flex time funds from the contingency reserve now pay the premium yes, sir. >> it seems like there would be been helpful to point out on the deck we have stop-loss protection on the flex opportunity the first slide suggests there, there are 3 programs and your remdz no stop-loss beyond the stop-loss coverage we already have. >> yes. >> fully noted, sir absolutely understood. >> i'll be curious to find out what the premium is. >> the future. >> yes. >> or the next meeting. >> okay. >> when he rate we'll absolutely review the stop-loss deck. >> we'll be receiving ing that administrative line that went opt out last year because of the 2 point something million dollars in hid tax and look at that administration line and it is in that line that the stop-loss for the flex plan is built in. >> yeah. in the april that was presented for blue shield that itemized it i have it we presented i

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believe firmly in the affordable care act that this is the step we needed to take to expand health care in these united states and tell at least 80 million more but having said that if we had universal health care with universal access to inferior care with still end up with what i am describing in the book. the first generation in a document he health disparities and understanding that is the work so all those statistics i have quoted about cancer or diabetes, it took 25 years to amass that literature but 80 percent of the disparity measures the conservatives will play to the fact you are narrowing the of life expectancy gap. you will die fiver seven years earlier. in some parts of the country your life expectancy is that of someone from haiti. so the fact we have narrowed that gap a little bit this achieves that the death rates due to cerebrovascular disease heart disease, a cancer. and people of color dayaks how. we have not moved in the needle so now we turn to the question of what is the mechanism? this is a sticky topic. i had to start my talk to sam what you to know i am not talking about expo s