NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / December 22, 2016 / Healthcare and Hospital stocks were some of the biggest losers on the market following the election of President Donald Trump. On November 9th, Tenet Healthcare Corp. (NYSE:THC) and HCA Holdings Inc. (NYSE:HCA) posted losses of 25 percent and 12 percent, respectively. Throughout his campaign Donald Trump has been a major critic of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare. "Obamacare is a disaster. You know it. We all know it," Trump said at last month's debate. "We have to repeal it and replace it with something absolutely much less expensive."

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During his campaign Trump pledged to repeal and replace Obamacare, which could see up to 21 million Americans lose their health insurance. The threat of millions of Americans losing health insurance would be a major hit to hospitals' bottom line.

"We see extreme risk of ACA repeal/replace, loss of the Medicaid expansion, a primary driver of results for both hospitals and health plans," Mizuho Securities analyst Sheryl Skolnick said in a research note.

Trump has since wavered a bit on his stance against Obamacare. After Trump's meeting with President Obama at the White House President Trump hinted that a full repeal of Obamacare could now potentially be off the table as he favored two of Obamacare's key pillars. Trump has stated he would like to continue allowing children under 26 to stay on their parents' health plan and also would like to keep the mandate that forces insurers to cover all illnesses, regardless of pre-existing conditions.

Tenet Healthcare Corp. (NYSE: THC)

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Tenet Healthcare's shares gained 0.68 percent to close at $14.88 a share Wednesday. The stock traded between $14.51 and $15.01 on volume of 2.02 million shares traded. On December 5th, the company announced that it had signed a multi-year national agreement with Centene Corporation to provide Centene and Health Net members "with in-network access to Tenet's hospitals, outpatient centers and employed physicians in 18 states." Tenet reported a net loss from continuing operations of $9 million, or $0.09 per share, for the third quarter of 2016, compared to a net loss of $28 million for the third quarter of 2015. Shares of Tenet Healthcare have fallen approximately 50.9 percent year-to-date and are down roughly 12.5 percent in the past month.

HCA Holdings Inc. (NYSE: HCA)

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HCA Holdings' shares gained 0.23 percent to close at $73.52 a share Wednessday. The stock traded between $73.16 and $73.93 on volume of 1.06 million shares traded. On November 14 th, the company's Board of Directors authorized a share repurchase program of up to $2 billion of the company's outstanding common stock. HCA Holdings reported a net income of $618 million, or $1.59 per diluted share, for the third quarter of 2016, compared to $449 million, or $1.05 per diluted share, in the third quarter of 2015. Shares of HCA Holdings have gained approximately 8.7 percent year-to-date and are up roughly 0.8 percent in the past month.

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