Health-care Stocks Fall After Sen. Kennedy Dies

<b></b>Copyright 2009 MarketWatch.com Inc.All Rights Reserved <img align="top" src="http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayPubLogo&imgId=636D643D2E47493A3B4C4F474F533A31323637383B313B747970653D6C6F676F&orgId=101996&docId=l:1029202897" title="Publication Logo"><br> <span id="x_hitDiv1"><b>MarketWatch</b> <br> <br> <b></b><span id="x_hitDiv2"><b>August</b> 26, 2009 Wednesday 11:56 AM EST <br> <br> <b>LENGTH: </b>110 words <br> <br> <br> <b>HEADLINE: </b>Health-care stocks fall after Sen. Kennedy dies<br> <br> <b>BYLINE: </b>Brittany Levine <br> <br> <p></p> Health-care stocks dropped Wednesday as investors assessed prospects for health-care reform in the wake of Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy's death Tuesday night. Shares of UnitedHealth Group Inc. (unh) fell 3%, Wellpoint Inc. (wlp) dropped 1.1%, Cigna Corp. (ci) lost 2%, Humana Inc. (hum) retreated 1.8% and Aetna Inc. (aet) slid 1.4%. Kennedy died at age 77, after a battle with brain cancer, in the midst of a debate over a sweeping overhaul of the U.S health-care system, an effort he had described as "the cause of my life." <p></p> © 1997-2008 MarketWatch.com, Inc. All rights reserved. See details at <a href="http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/docs/useragreement.asp"> http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/docs/useragreement.asp</a>. <br> <br> <b>LOAD-DATE: </b>August 27, 2009 <br> <br> <div> <div class="x_nshr"> <center></center> <center><a href="http://www.lexis-nexis.com/lncc/about/copyrt.html" target="_new" class="x_pagelinks">Copyright © 2009 LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All Rights Reserved. </a><br> <a href="http://www.lexis-nexis.com/terms/general" target="_new" class="x_pagelinks">Terms and Conditions</a> <a href="http://www.lexis-nexis.com/terms/privacy" target="_new" class="x_pagelinks"> Privacy Policy</a> <br> </center> </div> </div> </span></span>