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Healthcare’s Economic Risk Is Too Big to Ignore: Jonathan Levin

Consumer confidence is collapsing, hiring is weak and the housing market is largely frozen. All of which serves to underscore that the US economy is only holding up because of the boom in artificial intelligence and an aging population spending ever more on healthcare. Although the former seems to garner all the attention these days, the latter is…

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