Cramer's 'Mad Money' Recap: A Clear Cigna to Buy

Stock quotes in this article: CI , VOLC , MHS , QCOM , ORCL , GRMN  

Medco's a Healthy Play

Cramer welcomed Medco Health Solutions (MHS Quote) CEO David Snow to the show and asked him to explain how his company makes money off drugs that go generic.

"We're rewarded by our customers to manage their health care dollar," Snow said. "To the extent we're successful improving their cost perspective, we make money."

"In the case of generics, $50 billion of branded drugs are going off patent between now and 2011," he continued. "We are going to work very hard to appropriately move people from branded drugs to generic drugs, and we make money doing that."

When Cramer asked what the company is doing with all its cash, Snow said that right now Medco has a $5.5 billion stock-buyback program under way and that it reserves the right to make acquisitions in the future.

Cramer called Medco the definition of a stock people should be buying now.

To view Cramer's interview with David Snow, please click here.

During the show's "Sudden Death" round, Cramer was bullish on Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI Quote) and Reliant Energy (RRI Quote).

Lightning Round

Cramer was bullish on ABB (ABB Quote), Riverbed Technology (RVBD Quote), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ Quote), Allegheny Technologies (ATI Quote), Gilead Sciences (GILD Quote), Celgene (CELG Quote), Genzyme (GENZ Quote), Investors Bancorp (ISBC Quote), Dean Foods (DF Quote), UnitedHealth (UNH Quote), Cigna (CI Quote) and Level 3 Communications (LVLT Quote).

Cramer was bearish on Gateway (GTW Quote), Titanium Metals (TIE Quote), Sanofi-Aventis (SNY Quote), Quality Systems (QSII Quote) and MedImmune (MEDI Quote).

For more of Cramer's insights during the Lightning Round, click here.

Want more Cramer? Check out Jim's rules and commandments for investing from his popular book by clicking here.

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At the time of publication, Cramer was long Hewlett-Packard, Johnson & Johnson, UnitedHealth Group and Yahoo!.

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