Comcast earnings brought in the day Wednesday, as the cable provider showed that its recent acquisition of NBC Universal was not in vain for a disappearing subscriber.
Carol McCall of Humana, a big American health-care provider, thinks a move toward some sort of compulsory, universal coverage is inevitable, even in America.
Rather than trying to act as the main provider of health, education and pensions, it would act as the guarantor of universal access and as a regulator.