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REVIEW SUMMARY
Industry. Health care
Trend. The government could take away doctors' entrepreneurial zeal.
Key. Narrow specialties will likely fare better than general medicine as government barrels into the health care business.

Stephen Laquis had a difficult business decision to make and the government didn't make it easier.

The eye surgeon's Bonita Springs practice is thriving with 200 patients a week, 40 surgeries a week and 17 employees on the payroll. He needs room to expand, but uncertainty about government health care has tempered his ambitions.