Sunday, July 5, 2015

The Medical Insurer Predators Are Circling.....



Feeding frenzy

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This article is about predatory animals. For other uses, see Feeding frenzy (disambiguation).

Carp (Cyprinus carpio) competing for food at the pond of the Royal Palace Agdal of Marrakech in Morocco

Herring gulls and great black-backed gulls in Vestfjord, Norway eating fish remnants after fishers cleaned their catch.

 








The Medical Insurer Predators  Are Circling.

Although efficiency and better  service is the claim

monopoly pricing power is more often  the game

that  all sides play

and try to make pay,
whether or not it is fair.

So let the buyer beware

for  there 
soon  will be fewer from which to pick,

and the best plan may be to just  never get sick. 


HZL
7/3/15












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  • Feeding Frenzy is an arcade-style aquatic game written by Sprout Games, and published by PopCap Games. With an initial debut in 2004, it saw re-release on the Xbox Live Arcade service, with versions for both the original Xboxand the Xbox 360. The Xbox 360 version, released March 15, 2006, was the 17th most popular Xbox Live Arcade title for 2006.[1]
    In February 2006, the sequel to this game, Feeding Frenzy 2: Shipwreck Showdown was released.[2]

    Gameplay[edit]

    In Feeding Frenzy, players control a hungry marine predator intent on munching as many other fish as possible. During the course of the game's 40 levels, you will switch off between 5 marine animals. The last level is where you attempt to dethrone a large shark, the "Shark King", using Orville the Orca. The player takes on the role of different aquatic species each trying to move up the food chain. As smaller fish are eaten, the player's own fish grows in size and becomes capable of eating somewhat larger fish. By the end of each level, the fish is sufficiently large enough that it can eat almost anything on-screen. Players must be vigilant for hazards which include depth charges, larger predators, naval mines, radiation-poisoned fish, and jellyfish.
    If the player eats a sufficiently large number of fish in a short period of time, a score-enhancing Feeding Frenzy is initiated. If the player continues to rapidly consume other fish, a further Double Frenzy can be achieved. These both end when a short period of time without further rapid consumption elapses.
    The full game includes both a normal mode and a "time attack" mode.





    In ecology, a feeding frenzy occurs when predators are overwhelmed by the amount of preyavailable. For example, a large school of fish can cause nearby sharks, such as the lemon shark, to enter into a feeding frenzy. [1] This can cause the sharks to go wild, biting anything that moves, including each other or anything else within biting range. Another functional explanation for feeding frenzy is competition amongst predators.[2] This term is most often used when referring to sharks or piranhas.[3] It has also been used as a term within journalism.[4]
    "A shark feeding frenzy occurs when a number of sharks fight for the same prey. Sharks are usually solitary diners, and a feeding frenzy indicates why that might be. To an observer, it looks like the sharks lose their mind biting at anything that's in their way in an uncontrollable rage. They thrash around, their snouts elevating and their backs arching, all signs that indicate an impending attack. Some accounts tell of sharks eating each other and of sharks continuing to feed even after they've been disemboweled by other sharks."[5]
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    1. Feeding frenzy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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      In ecology, a feeding frenzy occurs when predators are overwhelmed by the amount of prey available. For example, a large school of fish can cause nearby ...



    From: hzlehrer@hotmail.com
    To: hzlehrer@hotmail.com
    Subject: The medical Insurer Sharks are circling
    Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 09:13:54 -0400



    Aetna-Humana Adds to Takeover Frenzy Among U.S. Health Insurers



    Aetna Inc.’s agreement to buy Humana Inc. for $37 billion is another link in a chain of U.S. health insurance acquisitions spurred by Obamacare.
    The purchase, announced Friday, comes on the heels of yesterday’s announcement by smaller insurer Centene Corp. that it will buy Health Net Inc. for about $6.3 billion.
    Obamacare, or the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, created millions of new customers for insurance coverage and encourages insurers to look for savings. Aetna’s deal means it will gain more than 14 million Humana customers in commercial, Medicare and Medicaid plans. By purchasing Health Net, Centene creates the biggest private administrator of Medicaid, a federal program for the poor.
    Here are other combinations that may be in the works:
    *Anthem Inc. may try again for Cigna Corp. The target rejected a $47 billion takeover bid last month. Cigna said the offer wasn’t in the best interest of shareholders and that Anthem executives aren’t fit to lead a merged giant.
    *UnitedHealth Group Inc. -- the biggest of the U.S. health insurers -- may try to grab Aetna. Before Aetna announced the Humana purchase, Barclays Plc analyst Joshua Raskin said a UnitedHealth-Aetna combo makes the most sense because of cost savings and the scale it would produce.
    *Anthem had weighed a bid for Humana, according to a person familiar with the matter, and could try to outbid Aetna.
    *Cigna may try to play the wolf rather than the sheep. Bloomberg reported on June 25 that the company had made an offer for Humana, but that Humana’s board was said to prefer Aetna’s bid.
    *UnitedHealth could jump in with a competing offer for Health Net, said Ana Gupte, an analyst at Leerink Partners LLC.
    *Further deals among smaller companies may occur. Centene and Health Net’s combination suggests that firms that aren’t among the five biggest will be taken in by the Obamacare-fueled merger frenzy.

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