Wall Street’s love affair with insurers, hospitals pressure Medicare, and swimming in a risk pool
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Wall Street can’t get enough of health insurers
If you’d have invested money in each of the largest health insurance stocks in January 2020, before the pandemic, you would have outperformed both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones with ease. And there’s no sign that anything will hinder the sector’s future profitability.
