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Health Care Stocks: The Patient is Improving

The prognosis for health care stocks is rosy.After riding a wave of uncertainty, health care company vital signals are now turning favorable. President Barack Obama's re-election and the Supreme Court decision in June to uphold the Affordable Care Act could help to lift many subsectors in the $1.6 trillion health care industry, including biotechnology and medical devices.As a result, more analysts are jumping on the bandwagon for health care stocks, calling them solid long-term investments. For example, Standard and Poor's Capital IQ, the ratings and research service, notes that many health care subsectors are poised to post above-average earnings growth in 2013.But that's not all. Demographics are on health care's side, with 77 million aging American baby boomers fueling health care growth as their medical spending increases.Health care stocks are solid three-to-five-year market plays, says Morningstar's director of health care research, Alex Morozov. "So this is a good time to invest...

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