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Last Update: 9:28 AM EDT May 06 2008


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The medical insurance firm reported a 5% decline in adjusted income to $265 million or 94 cents a share, despite revenues rising 4.6% to $4.6 billion as the diverse mix of business provides unique opportunities to grow profitably. The firm now expects to have the capacity to resume share repurchase, or consider additional acquisitions during the second quarter of 2008.


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Douglas Simpson (Merrill Lynch): Do you see the HealthCare segment growth accelerating over the next three to four years?

Mike Bell: We expect the HealthCare growth to accelerate over the next three to four years. And that would be the case even without the Great-West acquisition. We obviously think the Great-West acquisition adds to that growth rate.

On a going forward basis whether it be share repurchase or additional acquisitions that makes sense economically and strategically, we would expect to get another, three to five points of EPS growth from that combination.

Peter Costa (FTN Midwest Securities): What is going in the experience-rated book versus what''s going on in the other guaranteed cost book?

Mike Bell: A big difference in the two books of business is the higher new business sales in experience-rated versus the new business sales that we have had in the guaranteed cost books.
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