And a spokesman for the Work Foundation, cites research suggesting that employees working for more than 11 hours a day are also two-thirds more likely to develop heart disease than those who have worked for the standard seven to eight hours per day.

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For the same number of hours worked, workers can enjoy the same standard of living even as they allocate more of their working time to purchasing health care.

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We should bear in mind that total output and our standard of living depend on the productivity of our workers (output per hour worked) times the number of hours worked.

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