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If we reduced health care spending, what would everyone do?

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Sure, health care eats up a large and growing percentage of U.S. gross domestic product — but Matthew Yglesias points out that it also generates a large and growing percentage of U.S. jobs. If, he asks, we slash health care spending and, presumably, the total number of health care workers, what exactly will all those freed-up workers do?