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Healthcare Law's Impact on Businesses Varies

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Companies specializing in driving down spending on health care, whether through electronic records, preventive care or consolidating services, are turning out to be the biggest winners from the 2010 health care law.

Investors, analysts and policymakers say any business that can help health care providers cut costs or keep patients from being readmitted to the hospital soon after an in-patient visit is attracting more customers and seeing more investment.

Read the full story: http://usat.ly/PZgqBu

Source: USA Today

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