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The Game Plan After TXN and WLP

By Jim Cramer

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 Texas Instruments and Wellpoint saying that business isn't as good as they thought vs. the most oversold we have been in ages. Which one triumphs? We know from after-hours trading that UnitedHealth and Humana are down double-digit percentages. Until last night, Wellpoint was regarded as one of the best HMOs. (CRT Capital, though -- the outfit I follow on this stuff because Sheryl Skolnick is so good -- thought WLP's management wasn't so hot. Kudos there.) So much for that. Because WLP had a decent reputation, all of these stocks will be shot first, with questions asked later. They will all be presumed now to have been going down because of exactly what ailed WLP, as if the mystery is solved, and what looked like historically cheap prices aren't cheap at all. The industry's already catching a downgrade, and the guidedown is pretty monstrous...

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