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Best & Worst of Healthcare in 2015

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4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2015

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Kristine Harjes & Michael Douglass help review the healthcare industry’s 2015 with their selections for Best Story, Best Stock, and Worst CEO of the Year.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's Tuesday, December 15th.

0:03.4

Welcome to Market Fuller.

0:04.6

I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today.

0:06.7

One of the hosts of Industry Focus, Christine Harjus,

0:10.1

an occasional host, but always, you can always find him on fool.com Michael Douglas

0:13.8

thanks for being here both you yeah glad to be here fantastic this weekend on the

0:18.5

Motley Full Money radio show we're going to be doing our 2015 year in review.

0:23.6

And when I was thinking about that show,

0:26.5

one of the thoughts I had was, I'm willing to bet

0:30.1

lots and lots of money that we're not going to be talking about health care at all.

0:34.3

There's a lot to cover when you're doing a year and review show.

0:38.9

And I thought, you know what, we're not really going to delve into health care.

0:41.9

So that's why I wanted to have you guys on, because you

0:43.8

are among the expertiest health care experts we have here at the Motley Fool. So let's hit a few of the big

0:52.0

items for the year and review in health care. And let's start with just the business story of the year in reviewing health care and

0:53.7

let's start with just the business story of the year in health care and we're

0:58.4

talking about a massive industry but Christine when you think back in, what's the story of the year?

1:03.3

The thing that stands out to me is the massive industry consolidation that we've seen, and

1:08.3

this goes beyond health care.

1:09.4

I mean this is an unprecedented year for mergers and acquisitions. I think actually it's the

1:13.5

biggest year ever as of a couple days ago we hit that mark. We still have a couple

1:17.4

weeks to go. But yeah, to go ahead and get above that.

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