The industry's profit growth sharply outpaced the rest of Corporate America the past 10 years, a trend unlikely to change any time soon even if Congress passes the overhaul now on Capitol Hill, experts say.

As America prepares to tuck into turkeys Byrd became our longest serving lawmaker Birds Eye is being bought by Blackstone (BX) and yesterday’s equity action was one for the birds. With housing taking a hosing stocks slipped slightly as investors opted to sit on the sidelines evidently in a La-Z-Boy (LZB) (+28.69% on impressive earnings). On an otherwise down Dow day Bank of America’s (BAC) 3.68% gain was good for the index’s biggest increase doubtless delighting its ex-director and largest individual shareholder Meredith Spangler. (If not Meredith Whitney who renewed her bearish stance earlier in the week.) Gold recorded its eighth record ...

The health-care sector is huge here in the US accounting for 16% of GDP and politicians have decided the system demands a radical overhaul.So on Saturday as you kicked back beers at the local bar your policymakers passed sweeping health care reform by a 220-215 margin.The Wall Street Journal provides us with a CliffsNotes version of the House bill: The measure spends $1.05 trillion over a decade to provide health insurance to an additional 36 million Americans it creates a new public insurance plan by 2013 and it requires most Americans to carry insurance.The prospect of health-care reform has ...

Among the shares expected to see active trade in Thursday’s session are those of Aetna, Aflac, Avon, First Solar, LSI, Mylan, Newmont Mining, O’Reilly Automotive, P&G, and Symantec.

Among the shares expected to see active trade in Thursday’s session are those of Exxon, Procter & Gamble and Colgate-Palmolive.

NOTE TO EDITORS: The Following Is an Investment Opinion Being Issued by RothmanResearch.com.

NOTE TO EDITORS: The Following Is an Investment Opinion Being Issued by WallStSense.com