Wildcard: Is Clover Health a Disruptor or Distractor?
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Clover Health (NASDAQ: CLOV) has been one of the most controversial Medicare insurance providers since being brought public by Social Capital and Hedosophia. In this Wildcard episode, Motley Fool contributor Jason Hall and analyst Emily Flippen discuss Clover’s business, its unique value proposition, and then debate if the controversial short-seller report should have investors running for the door.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus. The Podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market each day. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm your host Emily Flippin. I'm Jason Moser. I'm Nick Seyple. I'm Dylan Lewis. And today |
| 0:16.0 | we're talking financials. Today we're talking consumer goods. Wild Card Wednesday. |
| 0:20.4 | And we're talking energy. And today we're talking tech. |
| 0:23.0 | Let's dive in. |
| 0:24.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus. |
| 0:29.0 | Today is Wednesday, February 24th, and I'm your host, Emily Flippin. Today I am joined by Motley Fool |
| 0:34.8 | contributor Jason Hall as we unpack one of the most controversial health |
| 0:38.9 | companies on the market today, Clover Health. Jason, thanks for joining. |
| 0:44.0 | This is going to be fun. |
| 0:46.0 | It's, you know, it's interesting because it's a little bit out of our wheelhouse, |
| 0:49.0 | but I think we're both people that can be kind of, I don't want to say critical but you and I both |
| 0:54.2 | really try to be eyes wide open when we dig into any any company especially |
| 0:58.1 | companies we don't understand as well so I think this is going to be a great |
| 1:00.9 | a great primer on this company. I will take full responsibility for this |
| 1:05.8 | episode because when we were originally scheduling this wild card Wednesday I did want to make |
| 1:12.0 | something health care focused I know that's an aspect of |
| 1:14.8 | industry focus that is sorely missing since Shannon Jones has since |
| 1:18.8 | since since moved on to bigger and better things at the Motley Fool. But when I had the idea, oh maybe we'll run with Clover Health, |
| 1:26.5 | I mean it sounded good to you. I don't think either of us really had a grass about just how deep this business runs. |
| 1:33.8 | So at least I know I didn't. |
| 1:35.3 | So I will put the caveat out there that this is my interpretation of the business. And when you're looking at health care businesses, especially |
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