This was a group of families that didn't want to send their children off to a residential school, or have them sit in a corner all day and color.

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We know from a lot of studies if you have health insurance you're more likely to get preventive care, detect conditions early on and you're more likely to have chronic conditions like diabetes or hypertension controlled effectively.

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The magnitude was surprising and we were fairly conservative in trying to estimate the economic cost of lost labor time.

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That adds another $27 billion to the price tag.

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...promises to be one of the most influential books of the 21st century.

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That added up to an economic cost of about $48 billion a year.

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We as a nation lose if workers aren't healthy, ... It's an investment in workers' health and productivity to make sure they get the medical care they need.

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We don't have in this report how much that would go down. It's obviously not going to go to zero because we will always have people with cancer and stroke.

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