“Genworth Ends China Oceanwide Merger Agreement,” by Allison Bell, ThinkAdvisor “Genworth Financial Inc. announced Tuesday that it has officially ended efforts to be acquired by China Oceanwide Holdings Group Co. Ltd. … In January, the companies shifted to using a merger agreement with no expiration date. Genworth said it has decided to end the merger agreement, rather than sticking with the open-ended agreement, to simplify efforts to carry out the company’s strategic plan. Part of the plan involves selling a stake in a large mortgage insurance subsidiary to investors, through a partial initial public offering.”   LTC Comment, Stephen A. Moses,
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 “Diane Archer on the Medicare Advantage Racket,” by Editor, Corporate Crime Reporter “In September 2018, a government report was released and was largely ignored by the mainstream press. The report from the Inspector General at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) seductively titled – Medicare Advantage Appeal Outcomes and Audit Findings Raise Concerns About Service and Payment Denials – found that Medicare Advantage regularly denies claims and that when patients appeal those denials, the Medicare Advantage plan reversed three-quarters of their own denials. The numbers were troubling because of the infrequency with which patients and providers used the appeals process
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