(Bloomberg) -- It’s chaos in Washington health-care policy:Obamacare will get ripped out by the roots --or Republicans’ repeal plans will go up in flames -- in adramatic end-of-week Senate voting barrage.

You wouldn’t know it from looking at the stock market.

Health-care companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Indexhave rallied 16 percent this year, beating the overall market’s 11percent gain. Insurers, the companies tied most closely to theAffordable Care Act, are up even more at 23 percent.

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