National health care reform now being considered in Congress will affect employer-provided health insurance premiums in several ways and will add between 250,000 and 400,000 jobs annually over the next decade. Link
So say
David M. Cutler, an Economics at Harvard University; and
Neeraj Sood, an Associate Professor at the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics and School of Pharmacy at the University of Southern California. They examine two different studies, one that examines the current negative effect that rising health care costs has on employment, and another that looks at how the current health care bill slows the growth of health care costs and health insurance premiums.
