HCA Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE:HCA) is looking for acquisitions. William Rutherford, CFO said, "And so we've got ample capacity through our cash flow from operations, between $8.5 billion and $9 billion. And so we -- first priority is investing capital.

Second priority, I would say is, to the extent there are opportunistic acquisitions present themselves, we have the ability to execute on that, and we do. Mostly, that's around network expansion and network development". Samuel Hazen, CEO said, "Well, outpatient opportunities are more significant than hospital systems. We compete in a bit of a different industry than most of maybe the companies who are here where we have a large tax-exempt nonprofit component that doesn't have the same mindset that maybe we do.

And so that limits our ability to do a lot of hospital acquisitions. We have a difficult regulatory environment also at this particular juncture. So we're poised to do new market acquisitions if they do present themselves.

They are just not really at this particular juncture presenting themselves. But we don't need acquisitions to be successful".