Will Insurers Determine Dendreon's Success?

Today, fool.com health-care analysts David Williamson and Brenton Flynn look at one of the most popular and controversial stocks in health care, Dendreon .

Favorable news about insurance coverage sent shares of the company about 10% higher today, but they eventually retreated a bit by market close.

Investors are increasingly seeing insurers being a major driver of biotech stocks everywhere, with the decision to insure or not being a make-it-or-break-it moment for those companies. Today Dendreon got a big break, but this is hardly the sort of decision investors can bank on.

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