Outlook for Managed-Care Stocks Brightens Despite 2020 Risks

(Bloomberg) -- The outlook for managed-care stocks next year appears bright after a tumultuous 2019.The rise and fall of Senator Elizabeth Warren in the polls for the 2020 presidential election wrecked havoc on the S&P 500 Managed Care index, which sank as much as 21% in a two-month stretch amid fears private insurers would be disrupted. The index, however, is ending the year with its largest-ever quarterly gain since Bloomberg started tracking the data in 1994. Not only has Warren’s r