At the Robin Hood Investors Conference late last week, Glenview Capital's Larry Robbins also made a rare media appearance on CNBC and talked about the Affordable Care Act, his healthcare investments, and other topics.
He articulated that the key focus on more Americans gaining healthcare is who is getting insurance versus how many. He feels that people who actively use health services are the ones signing up first, which benefits hospitals (and he thinks managed care will have some issues).
On for-profit hospitals versus not-for-profit: "Regardless of what the competitive environment is, they (for-profit) have fared better in the past and they will in the future."
On why he wanted Health Management Associates (HMA) to merge with Community Health (CYH): "Consolidation is important, scale is important."
Touching on general market valuation, he noted that his portfolio is trading at lower multiples since that's what they've focused on. But if you turn to the overall market, historically with low interest rates, the market trades at a higher multiple until real inflation goes above 4% he says.
Video 1 on the Affordable Care Act & healthcare in general:
Video 2 on for-profit hospitals (HMA, CYH, THC, HCA etc):
Video 3 on market valuation:
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Glenview's Larry Robbins on Healthcare, For-Profit Hospital Stocks
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