Presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump covered a lot of important issues during Monday night’s 1.5-hour debate. However, one issue that was not raised was the topic of prescription drug prices.

In the past year, Clinton has specifically called out Valeant Pharmaceuticals Intl Inc VRX 3.7% and Mylan NV MYL 3.13% by name for their price hikes.

“It’s wrong when drug companies put profits ahead of patients, raising prices without justifying the value behind them,” Clinton said back in August.

The topic of drug prices has been one of Clinton’s core issues on the campaign trail, yet the subject of healthcare was not raised at all during the debate.

Traders are certainly taking note of the type of impact the debates can have on the market, as evidenced by Clinton’s words about private prisons rocking prison stocks on Tuesday.

“I’m glad that we’re ending private prisons in the federal system. I want to see them ended in the state system,” Clinton said during the debate.

Shares of Corrections Corp Of America CXW 0.65% and The GEO Group Inc GEO 0.42%fell…

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