Healthcare: The Top 8 Market-Moving Stories of 2017
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Repeal and replace wasn't the only healthcare story this year! Critical policy changes, revolutionary new medicines, and M&A also sent healthcare stocks on a wild ride in 2017.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Industry Focus is brought to you by 23 and Me. |
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| 0:15.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:20.0 | As it is Wednesday, we'll be diving into health care. |
| 0:23.0 | Today's date is December 20th. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm Christine Hargis, |
| 0:26.0 | and I'm joined via Skype by a long-time fool. |
| 0:28.0 | com contributor, Todd Campbell. |
| 0:30.0 | Todd, how's it going? |
| 0:32.0 | Hi, Christine, happy Wednesday. |
| 0:34.0 | Happy Wednesday. |
| 0:35.0 | So as our listeners are probably aware, if they've been listening already this week, |
| 0:39.0 | we are doing a year in review here on Industry Focus, |
| 0:42.0 | where each sector is recapping the major |
| 0:44.6 | stories and headlines from their respective coverage areas from 2017. |
| 0:48.6 | Most of the stories that Todd you and I are about to highlight happened over the course of the year. |
| 0:54.8 | So we won't be going chronologically. |
| 0:57.0 | In fact, we're actually going alphabetically according to how we labeled the different stories |
| 1:00.8 | in our show notes. |
| 1:02.1 | So just want to make sure no |
| 1:03.5 | listener wastes brainpower trying to figure out why we chose this order. |
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