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Dr. Seuss explains health policy

at 01:12 PM ET, 09/13/2011

I’ve written a decent amount on the complex impact of the growing health care sector, which has included both more jobs (good) and higher costs (bad). Gregory Warner at Marketplace, however, has done me one better: he’s turned that story into a Dr. Seuss cartoon. It’s an entertaining, and informative, explanation of how a health care arms race does indeed stimulate the economy, but not necessarily in the way we want it to. Watch:

Oh The Jobs (Debt?) You'll Create! from Marketplace on Vimeo.

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