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This study examines whether health care is affected by Baumol’s cost disease in a scenario of no growth. Baumol's model … working hours. In both scenarios the cost disease does not affects the health care. However, in the second scenario an … relative cost of health care will increase over the years. Therefore, although the cost disease does not affect the health …

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