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Good news for wages and Social Security tax base, but will costs stay flat? Health care costs are a large and growing share of the nation’s GDP. One way those costs feed into the general economy is through employer contributions to employer-sponsored health insurance (ESHI). Economists generally assume that the costs of employer benefits –...