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http://articles.marketwatch.com/201...5_1_health-care-system-health-care-health-law
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) In the battles to come for health-care companies and their stocks, the future is about so much more than the Supreme Court. No matter how the high court rules in coming days on the industrys landmark legal overhaul, analysts say, the nation already has locked itself into a do-or-die mission to rein in the skyrocketing cost of care.
And the way those efforts are unfolding, the sectors medical-gear suppliers providers of everything from implantable heart defibrillators to tongue depressors could end up paying the price for decades of out-of-control inflation.
The ground is shifting, said Debbie Wang, medical technology analyst for Morningstar. Doctors, hospitals, insurers, and even patients, have all taken up the cause at a time when health-care inflation outstrips overall cost-of-living increases by 3 to 1...
Today, doctors are cutting their costs and forsaking private practices as their salaries have dropped. Many physicians are joining larger clinics or simply working out of hospitals. While they cared little about pricing before, doctors and hospitals both are shopping around for the best prices or the most cost-effective means to administer care...
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) In the battles to come for health-care companies and their stocks, the future is about so much more than the Supreme Court. No matter how the high court rules in coming days on the industrys landmark legal overhaul, analysts say, the nation already has locked itself into a do-or-die mission to rein in the skyrocketing cost of care.
And the way those efforts are unfolding, the sectors medical-gear suppliers providers of everything from implantable heart defibrillators to tongue depressors could end up paying the price for decades of out-of-control inflation.
The ground is shifting, said Debbie Wang, medical technology analyst for Morningstar. Doctors, hospitals, insurers, and even patients, have all taken up the cause at a time when health-care inflation outstrips overall cost-of-living increases by 3 to 1...
Today, doctors are cutting their costs and forsaking private practices as their salaries have dropped. Many physicians are joining larger clinics or simply working out of hospitals. While they cared little about pricing before, doctors and hospitals both are shopping around for the best prices or the most cost-effective means to administer care...
