4 ms·
The difference between producitivity and wage gap is fully explained by increasing healthcare costs: https://www.ajmc.com/view/healthcare-costs-increased-twice-
by throwayyy479087 4y ago
The difference between producitivity and wage gap is fully explained by increasing healthcare costs: https://www.ajmc.com/view/healthcare-costs-increased-twice-as-fast--over-last-decade https://www.ajmc.com/view/healthcare-costs-increased-twice-a...
- topkai22 4y agoThe difference between productivity and wages is not fully explained by increasing benefits/health care costs, but it is something like over half the difference. Benefits costs do a better job explaining increasing wage inequality, but again not all of it and doesn’t address what’s happening outside the US
- bowsamic 4y agoThat would be very convenient for capitalists but it is false, though even if it were true for the US it is not true for European countries
- orangepurple 4y agoHealthcare costs are largely driven by metabolic syndrome: the main cause of diseases of major modern civilizations. Half of Americans are on track to be pre-diabetic or diabetic by 2050.