Healthcare lending wakes from policy-induced sedation

摘要

US drug distributor cardinal health's deal to buy Medtronic's medical supplies units days after abbott laboratories agreed to a long-awaited purchase of diagnostic testing company Alere has raised the pulse of a sector suppressed by potential healthcare policy upheaval. Healthcare deal-making among high-quality companies has stalled, with President Trump and the Republican Congress tackling and then unable late last quarter to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare. Eagerly awaited tax reforms are being delayed by the ongoing healthcare policy debate.