Wall Street comes to Washington: analysts' perspectives on the changing health care system.

Market forces and recent policy changes are rocking the health care system, according to a panel of Wall Street analysts who track health care companies. In the fourth annual Wall Street roundtable convened by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC), analysts discussed the reasons behind improved health plan profitability, providers' struggles to maintain--let alone increase--market power, trends in consolidation and the dramatic impact of federal legislation on all sectors of the industry. This Issue Brief reports on how the analysts see these and other forces playing out in the future.