House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Goes After Medicare Advantage Payments on Wednesday and Humana Stock Up 5% by Thursday Close

Apparently Wall Street doesn’t take Pete Stark and the Congressional Democratic Majority very seriously.The House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee held hearings on Medicare Advantage payments to HMOs on Wednesday morning. It’s no secret the Democrats have every intention of cutting those payments.No health plan has made the strategic bet on the Medicare Advantage program that Humana has. And