Supreme Court Health Care Decision Causes Hospital Stocks To Jump

The Huffington Post News Editors, Huffington Post
Thu, 06/28/2012 - 8:03am

WASHINGTON -- Stocks of hospital companies rose sharply and insurance companies fell Thursday after the Supreme Court upheld a requirement that almost all Americans carry health insurance.The stock of Hospital Corp. of America, the largest private hospital chain in the United States, rose a little more than 7 percent. Quest Diagnostics, which runs laboratories, rose almost 3 percent.Read More... More on Barack Obama

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