While the PBM stocks have been going up, the same thing is happening to the big pharma stocks, as you can see in this chart of a pharma stock index , and in the performance of Merck’s near 10% surge in the last 3 days. There’s more in this Forbes article.

However, the legislation may have been sent out from the conference committee, but it has three major pieces undecided. These include the issues of competition, long-term cost control and Health Savings Accounts.  If they couldn’t get a solution out of the two moderate Democrats on the committee, is there really a chance that this will get past Ted Kennedy? Lefty economist Paul Krugman explains why not.

So I’m still pondering shorting the PBMs…..