Carlyle Group to acquire Multiplan, largest independent PPO in America

[antigop]

http://carlylegroup.com/eng/news/l5-news3313.html

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The Carlyle Group to Acquire MultiPlan, Largest Independent PPO in America; MultiPlan’s Top 10 Clients Provide Health Coverage to Over 70 Million Americans

New York – MultiPlan, Inc. and The Carlyle Group announced today that The Carlyle Group will acquire MultiPlan, the largest independent PPO in America. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2006. Financial terms were not disclosed.

MultiPlan is the nation’s oldest and largest independent Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) network offering nationwide access to more than 4,200 hospitals, 90,000 ancillary care facilities and 450,000 physicians and specialists. The company’s 2,000 clients include large and mid-sized insurers, third-party administrators, self-funded plans, HMOs and other entities that pay claims on behalf of health plans.
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[theophilus]

1. Can National Health Care (the NeoCon way) be far behind? n/t

[SharonAnn]

2. Nope, because now they can insert their sihpon into taxpayer dollars

through National Health Care.

All they do is find "businesses" that have access to taxpayer revenue, then get legislation passed to increase that revenue, then insert their siphon.

More of our money for their pockets.

[Roland99]

3. Sure, Relieve corporations of the burden of healthcare premiums and....

send the employees to socialized care managed by CarlylePlan.

[linazelle]

No wonder they don't want national healthcare--gotta keep those

stock prices up...:eyes:

[linazelle]

4. dupe deleted

[Nothing Without Hope]

5. K & R -Apparently up to their necks in SHIPPING DEALS too - so timely!!!

You'd almost think they have administration connections! ;)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2471320
thread title (2-20-06 GD-P): the connection to it all - Carlyle Group involved in port security deal
Comment/excerpt: “MM&P-contracted CSX Lines, the US-flag container shipping subsidiary of CSX Inc., will be sold to the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm based in Washington, DC for $300M. The acquisition will give Carlyle control over the nation's largest Jones Act container fleet and will add to the company's growing transportation portfolio. CSX Lines will be renamed Horizon Lines LLC, when the transaction is completed early next year pending regulatory approval. CSX Lines is the nation's largest ocean transport company, with 17 US-flag vessels and 22,000 containers, providing ocean transportation and logistics services to and from the US, Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, and Puerto Rico. Carlyle's other maritime holdings include Seabulk International, formerly Hvide Marine, which owns and operates 10 Jones Act tankers in the Gulf of Mexico. Through United Defense Industries, Carlyle controls United States Marine Repair, the nation's largest non-nuclear ship repair and conversion company…
John Snow, the CEO of CSX, was appointed Treasury Secretary by the younger President Bush last week.
…and more – they want to get into NUCLEAR SUBMARINES TOO…

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x473813
thread title (2-20-06 GD): Carlyly Group's involvement in port security company
Comment/excerpt: Same main article as the GD-P thread about sale of CSX lines to Carlyle, appointment of former CSX CEO as Sec of Treasury. Reply 24: DUBAI PORT WORLD – THE ONES BUYING THE AMERICAN PORTS – OWN CSX!!! CSX also owns biggest rail in the east, plus trucking.(Reply #30) But Reply #34 says DPW bought the terminal business from CSX for cash and does NOT own CSX, only a business CSX once owned.
Much needs to be clarified, but there are lots of dots there to connect, and it all comes back to sellout by the Bushies for money and to please their MidEast patrons.

[Armstead]

6. kick