Over at SmartMoney.com, Daren Fonda has put together a shopping list of stocks that might benefit from the Obama Administration's approach to healthcare ("Obamacare"). Thus far, Wall Street has taken a "dim view" of Obama's plans to slash healthcare costs, but there could be a few possible winners in all of this. Here are some of the best prospects to benefit from Obama's healthcare reforms:

(1) Biotech Companies - "On the surface, the news is bad: Obama wants to open their drugs to generic competition, a potential profit killer. But generic biotech drugs haven’t gained much traction in Europe... and competition in the U.S. is several years off. So for now, biotech firms enjoy strong pricing power for all their products."

(2) Companies that make life sciences tools and equipment

(3) Companies that make products for non-elective procedures

(4) Generic drug makers

And, of course, a category that Smart Money doesn't mention at all -- the companies that are helping to digitize America's healthcare records. For members of the TradeKing Trader Network: Any suggestions of stocks or sectors that look, ahem, "healthy" as a result of Obama's new approach to health care?


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