Health Care source of job "recovery"

[sandnsea]

So this explains why so many people are unemployed despite the job numbers.

"Since 2001, the health-care industry has added 1.7 million jobs. The rest of the private sector? None "



http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_39/b4002001.htm?chan=rss_topStories_ssi_5

[azurnoir]

1. That is why I went in to it

I went back to school at 40 because all future job forecasts at the time mid nineties said that health care was the field with most job growth and security. If you don't want to do direct patient care there are also tech jobs with less patient contact and administrative postions with virtually none too. For the most part training is one to four years.

[fed-up]

2. baby boomers are aging-# employed in health care industry will increase nt

[raccoon]

3. Well, the need for health care is certainly there, but as more

and more people lose their employer-provided group medical insurance, and have to pay out-of-pocket for any medical care they get, or else have an individual policy which doesn't pay for much except catastrophic care, what happens then?

[sandnsea]

4. A health care bubble

And the last leg of the economy. I don't know what will happen when it bursts - but burst it will. $10,000 a day hospital stays are not sustainable on retirement incomes.

[raccoon]

5. Nor on most working people's incomes. nt