Healthcare: Why Drugmakers Are Shaking In Their Boots
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2015
⏱️ 18 minutes
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The Motley Fool highlights potential winners and losers in Hillary Clinton's proposed plan to curb soaring drug prices.
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| 0:00.0 | Why Drugmakers are Shaking in their Boots. This is Industry Focus. |
| 0:07.0 | Hey everyone, welcome to Industry Focus Healthcare Edition. I'm your host |
| 0:14.2 | Christine Harajus and joining me on Skype is Motley Fool's health care |
| 0:18.5 | contributor Todd. Thanks for being here Todd. How's it going up there in |
| 0:21.6 | New Hampshire? It's going great. It's a beautiful fall day. |
| 0:26.0 | Fall has arrived in New England. |
| 0:28.0 | The leaves will be turning soon. I bet it's going to be beautiful. |
| 0:31.0 | So if you guys have been following the news lately or even |
| 0:34.8 | just watching the health care portion of your portfolio slowly trickle downwards, you know that |
| 0:39.5 | something has happened out there to threaten health care companies. |
| 0:42.5 | And so today we're going to dig into the news |
| 0:44.2 | to unpack for everybody what this all means for patients, |
| 0:47.6 | insurers, drugmakers, investors. |
| 0:50.5 | This conversation has been ongoing, |
| 0:52.1 | but let's start this story yesterday on Twitter. |
| 0:55.0 | Todd? |
| 0:56.0 | Wow, I tell you. |
| 0:57.0 | What a crazy weekend and week it's been for health care investors. |
| 1:02.0 | There's a lot to digest, so I'm not going to spend |
| 1:04.6 | too much time talking about what got it all started so that we can dive into the |
| 1:08.6 | meat of it but I think what's interesting or important for investors to know |
| 1:12.3 | is that there has been a trend in the health |
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