To Reduce Health Care’s Costs, Destroy Its Jobs
While it isn't pretty to think about health care as a "jobs" problem rather than a "cost" problem, it is greatly clarifying.
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Is health care America's economic savior or scourge? The answer, strangely, might be both.
In the short term, growth within the health-care sector provides a boost to a weak economy. But the same rise will eventually be more trouble than help.