Healthcare Stock Index Breaks Record - Tops 6,500 Mark

[Roland99]

Source: Morningstar

Emerging Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (Pinksheets: EHSI). With the President, Congress and the American People intently focused on healthcare initiatives over the last nine months, the stock market has positively responded through the same period with steady gains of over 200%. The NYSE Healthcare Sector Index® (INDEXNYSE: NYP.ID) cleared 6,500 today, closing at a 52-week high of 6,551.69. This represents gains of more than 200% above the index low of 2,060.29 in March of 2009, which was just before the US healthcare initiatives were undertaken.

As healthcare gains a central focus of Americans, including the aging Baby Boomer Generation, Emerging Healthcare Solutions builds on solid industry experience, cutting edge business tactics and strategic partnerships to take advantage by identifying and investing in breakthrough technologies that offer the hope of attaining positive and better outcomes for patients while containing costs.

Congress is expected to pass a trillion-dollar health care measure in the short term. Some of the largest players in the industry are Pfizer, Inc. (NYSE: PFE), Eli Lilly & Co. (NYSE: LLY), Medtronic (NYSE: MDT) and Haemonetics (NYSE: HAE). All are expected to see expanded revenue under the national health plan currently working through Congress.

About Emerging Healthcare Solutions, Inc.

Emerging Healthcare Solutions, Inc. is a company dedicated to providing guidance to participants in the healthcare industry. Our primary goal is to give you a roadmap showing how to realize enormous profits from the changes occurring right now in the healthcare industry. Our common stock is traded under the symbol EHSI.

Read more: http://news.morningstar.com/newsnet/ViewNews.aspx?article=/BW/20100112006274_univ.xml

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The healthcare industry just *hates* "Obamacare".


yeah...right.

[Bozita]

1. If the bill passes, they win. If it doesn't make it, they win.

It's a win-win situation.

[nightrain]

4. knr. yep. I'd say "If it doesn't make it, they *still* win".

It's a lose/lose for the people until we get actual health care for all.

[No Elephants]

8. They win more if it makes it. With Boomers going on Medicare, they need the mandate.

Make all those healthy young 'uns sign up year after year after year. Odds are few will need much health care for another 30 years or more.

That will more than make up for the disappearing boomers.

Bonus time!

[RoccoR5955]

2. They get a landslide if the bill passes, and they are seeing that it may well pass.

so now they make profits on top of profits, soon to make more profits on the dwindling middle class.

[Newsjock]

3. Mission accomplished

Up yours, America.

[ixion]

7. Yep, that's the long and the short of it

:argh: They get rich, we get the shaft.

[truedelphi]

12. + 1. n/t

[dflprincess]

5. And this tells us all we need to know about the Insurance Profit Protection Act

and who "our" elected officials are looking out for.

Can't wait to see what happens when they start working on Medicare and Social Security "reform" :sarcasm:

[truedelphi]

14. The last time I saw the Committee members of Baucus committee

All of them Repugs that one day, discussing the health care reform, they said gleefully, (I will paraphrase) "This has been a difficult job, but now that we are done, don't we need to start in right away with Medicare and Social Security Reform?"


These shenanighans have changed the nature of the meaning of the word "reform."

So this policy will be the policy whose pain just keeps on a-coming.

[Algorem]

6. does Obama do press conferences anymore?

[Mithreal]

9. Obama is saving another industry. Yeehaw!

:sarcasm:

[JNelson6563]

10. This is very troubling.

Very troubling indeed.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

11. Not to spoil a good hatefest here...

But the index was at 4,290 on March 9 (Look Here) -- which in addition to being "just before" the healthcare debate stated in Congress is also (coincidentally) the market bottom for the last year. So in rising to its current level of 6,598 (as of 1:45 cst), the sector index has gone up by about 150% -- which is pretty much the same as the broader market. As of 1:45 cst, the Dow was at 10,682 an increase of about 160% since March 9.

Facts are sucky....

[Roland99]

15. Um, the DJIA is up about 63% from Mar. 9, 2009. Not 160%.

It was at 6,547 on Mar. 9, 2009. It's at 10,686 now.

A 150% increase would have the DJIA at 16,367.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

17. My mistake

6547 x 163%. It's a 63% increase since March 9.

In any case, I don't know where Morningstar got its figure of 2K for the index on March 9. It just isn't so.

And as I've posted on several occasions during the past month, this index is not up any more sharply than the rest of the market.

[Roland99]

19. That could be a mistake on their part. Or did the index get reconfigured?

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

20. I don't know....

At first I thought the article pulled out one part of the index, but I didn't see any mention of that. And really, once you start drilling down into a sector index, it loses its reason for being. You might as well just look at individual stocks.

[ooglymoogly]

28. But, if this bill were bad for the bloodsuckers, instead of the proles and the middle class

the stocks would have gone down no matter what the rest of the market did. The indication by this rise (a rise that will continue to skyrocket) is that the bill overwhelmingly favors the bloodsuckers at the expense of the health of the citizenry; As if we needed that clear indicator to tell us that.

straw men are even more sucky

[grahamhgreen]

13. If the bill passes, tirllions will go to big insurance to crush any real reform - it's a no-brainer

[KansDem]

27. Yeah, we'll be paying more to assure that we'll be paying more...

Pass it!...pass it!...pass it!...pass it!...pass it!...

[grahamhgreen]

32. Awesome photo and tags!

[Ignis]

16. CHANGE!

:patriot:

[Sunnyshine]

18. Many families, including ours, were notified their insurance costs are increasing for 2010.

Like $200 or more. Disgusted and pissed off does not even begin to describe how we feel.

[AzDar]

21. Kill This Bill... (before it kills us)

:patriot:

[xchrom]

22. Well yeah now that they're a branch of the government. Nt

[HCE SuiGeneris]

23. What a shocker!

*very heavy sigh*

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[KansDem]

25. Man, the maggots have surrounded the carcass--and it isn't even dead yet!

[ooglymoogly]

26. And they are betting we are going to forget this rotten

maggot infested horseshit that is being force fed down our throats. Maybe the drug industry is working on a breakthrough drug that induces a stasis form of Alzheimer so we will all forget yet stay alive to pad their pockets.

[Mari333]

29. load up on the KY jelly folks

and grab your ankles

[ooglymoogly]

30. Cha, cha, cha changes is translated by O into;

Cha, cha, cha ching for the bloodsuckers.

[skipos]

31. That index is flat compared to the DJIA over the last year, but that isn't exciting enough

to talk about I guess. Pretty much anytime since 2004, this index has at most been 10% above the DJIA. What an OUTRAGE!!! :eyes:

Don't get me wrong, HCR is weak ass shit, but so are most of the reactions here.

[fascisthunter]

33. can't ya all just FEEL the prosperity?

me neither...

[depakid]

34. The folks who had faith in the Dems complicity and lack of fortitude made a lot of money

[Quantess]

35. K & R

[inna]

36. lovely.

:crazy:


KR

[Odin2005]

37. This bill needs to be killed yesterday.

[New Dawn]

38. They know that their fascist Mandate will steal billions more from us.

[Kablooie]

39. Hooray! I'm so happy for them!

[boppers]

40. Bets on stock gains predict winners like betting on horses predict winners.

*sigh*

I guess this is why people still waste money on betting.

[Blue_Tires]

41. the mere fact that healthcare stocks exist makes me feel a little less human inside...

[progressoid]

42. Woo hoo! The recovery is ...

Oh, wait.

Nevermind.