These health impacts involve about $10 billion in annual economic damages. Loss of life and pain and suffering account for about $ and $ billion of this total. Annual health care costs of air pollution are in the order of $600 million; lost productivity accounts for an additional $560 million in annual damages. These economic damages are expected to increase substantially over the next 20 years. The ASAP will reduce health and economic damages by about 11% overall, compared to the status quo. The residual damages (., those damages expected even with full implementation of the ASAP) in 2015 are substantial and in.
