Sood, Neeraj; Ghosh, Arkadipta; Escarce, José J. - Mathematica Policy Research - 2009
This article quantifies in dollars, jobs, and economic value lost how excess growth in health care costs is adversely … determined that faster growth in health care costs had greater adverse effects on economic outcomes for industries with larger … health care costs would have meant 120,803 fewer jobs, $28,022 million in lost gross output, and $14,082 million in lost …