Healthcare: Does Healthcare’s Past Predict Its Future?
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2016
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Some things never change – and in healthcare, we sometimes feel like we’re talking about the same stuff year in and year out. Join us as we cover some stories that were a big deal in 2014, check in on how they’re going now, and predict some major trends in 2018.
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| 0:00.0 | The more things change the more they stay the same on this health care edition of |
| 0:04.7 | Industry Focus. Welcome to Health Care Industry Focus. It is April 27th, 2016. I'm your host |
| 0:17.8 | Christine Hargis and if you've been listening to the Industry Focus shows that |
| 0:21.8 | came on Tuesday and Monday of this week, then you'll |
| 0:24.2 | know it is throwback week. |
| 0:26.2 | So we've reached out to some of the folks that were involved with this show before all of your |
| 0:30.8 | current hosts were. And so in that light, I have special guest Michael Douglas |
| 0:35.6 | on the show who has been doing this kind of thing |
| 0:38.4 | since before it was even podcast. |
| 0:40.4 | Right, yeah. |
| 0:41.1 | So I started at the Motley Fool in early 2014 and at the time the health care show was called market checkup and it was only videos. We didn't do a podcast at all with it. |
| 0:52.5 | So I was there when industry focus first became a by industry |
| 0:58.4 | podcast and show and then eventually handed off to our I will say much more talented current |
| 1:07.2 | host Christine Harjus. Well thanks I don't know if I can truly accept that |
| 1:11.4 | compliment but I think you did a great job too. |
| 1:13.4 | And I'm really excited to have you back on the show today. |
| 1:15.6 | I mean, just thinking about what has happened in health care since I started following |
| 1:19.6 | the industry, which has been about two years or so. |
| 1:22.1 | Things, as I kind of alluded to in the teaser for this show, things have changed a little bit, |
| 1:28.0 | but a lot of the themes are roughly the same. |
| 1:31.0 | Let's take a look at one of the biggest topics for you guys that you |
| 1:35.8 | were covering, which was Obamacare. What was the state of that two, three years ago? |
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