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In Defense of a Giant (and Growing) Health Care Industry

Posted on September 27, 2008

Now I know who to blame: Without health care as the economy's most powerful economic locomotive, economic growth during President George W. Bush's first term would have been so anemic that he most probably would have lost the election in 2004. That is Uwe E. Reinhardt writing in the NY Times new Economix blog in defense of the health care industry:In Defense of a Giant (and Growing) Health Care Industry, by Uwe E. Reinhardt, Economix: If a Martian landed on earth and followed our debate on health care, he or she ... would hear politicians, business people and the talking heads ... lament the b...

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