WSJ: Stock Market Today: UnitedHealth, Other Health-Insurance Stocks Slide

[Jacson6]

Health-insurer stocks are tumbling on news the Trump administration wants to hold Medicare rates almost flat next year.

Shares in Humana, UnitedHealth and CVS led losses, sinking more than 10% in morning trading. UnitedHealth also issued soft 2026 revenue guidance.

The Wall Street Journal first reported that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed to hold payment rates to an average .09% increase next year, far below what the companies and Wall Street had expected.

.09% The repubs are going to kill Medicare by a thousand cuts.



https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-01-27-2026?mod=hp_lead_pos1 [PAYWALLED]

[hatrack]

1. Tragic!

[PSPS]

2. This is for the medicare advantage scam "reimbursement" rates.

This proposes no increase in the amounts the "medicare advantage" scammers can steal from the taxpayers. Hence, the value of the related companies' stocks goes down.