Johnson and Johnson is firing on all cylinders, and I love its two - pronged business model of well -
known consumer healthcare and personal - care products combined with branded pharmaceuticals.
Not exact matches
They
knew consumers would come online to get health information and make
healthcare decisions.
I think something that keeps becoming a problem for various sort of
consumer - driven initiatives here is that people demand a level of security and predictability and reliability out of [
healthcare that keeps them from being able to walk out of a doctor's office and say
no, or keeps them from being willing to accept the consequences of a market, which, after all, rely to some degree on scarcity.
I think people have the perspective, especially... I'll opine on Washington for a second because I think a lot of people that write
healthcare policy, they think it's an open market, but you really don't have... The
consumer doesn't
know price when it makes a decision.
We as parents,
consumers, scientists and
healthcare provides do not truly
know all of the benefits and risks of breast or bottle feeding.
GSK is in my view a fine company with a strong position in three segments: pharmaceutical, vaccines and
consumer healthcare with well -
known brands such as Voltaren, Panadol, Sensodyne and Aquafresh.
And it's hard to believe that even in the worst of economic depressions that the largest companies in the food,
consumer staples, railroad, utility,
healthcare, and banking industries will suddenly become unprofitable and
no longer have the money to pay and raise those dividends.
Through the acquisition, PBI - Gordon significantly increased the depth of its
Consumer Animal Products business unit, which includes the Lambert Kay brand, by adding PetAg's well -
known portfolio of nutritional supplements and
healthcare products.
And I'm using «
consumer» in a pejorative sense here, namely one who passively (and happily) accepts programmatic decision - making in most aspects of his or her life, such as refrigerators (e.g., handling cooling systems), cars (e.g., protection algorithms to eco-driving), financial markets (e.g., the 2010 flash crash), movie preferences (e.g., the Netflix prize), and
healthcare (e.g.,
knowing whether you are headed to the hospital), just to name a very few things.
The Affordable Care Act, also
known as Obamacare, made covering certain
healthcare services a requirement for all health insurance plans available to
consumers.
If you look at [Johnson & Johnson], for example, they have
consumer products, but they also have a really amazing
healthcare business that
consumers may not
know about.
The stated goals of the PPACA, also
known as Obamacare, are to protect
healthcare consumers by introducing a series of policy reforms designed to lower
consumer costs and to hold insurance companies to higher standards of accountability.