26 Lichtenberg’s findings that health insurance coverage had a marginally significant positive relationship with productivity imply that a 10-percentage point increase in health insurance coverage is associated with a 1.4% rise in productivity.
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Do new drugs increase life expectancy? A critique of a Manhattan Institute paper.
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The highly significant association between health insurance coverage and reduced health care expenditures (see Table 1 ) implies that a 10-percentage point increase in health insurance coverage could reduce total health care spending 4.2%.