Healthcare jobs now make up 10.7 % of U.S. employment, study says

Private-sector healthcare now comprises a higher percentage of total U.S. employment than ever before, reaching 10.7 percent, according to a new report from the Altarum Institute.

That figure represents an increase of more than one percentage point since the start of the recession in December 2007, when private-sector healthcare represented 9.5 percent of total employment. The study was done by the Altarum Institute’s Center for Studying Health Spending. The analysis is based on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The growth in healthcare jobs contrasts with the rest of the economy. The study shows that while healthcare employment increased 6.3 percent since December 2007, non-healthcare employment has fallen by 6.8 percent.

Charles Roehrig, director of Altarum’s Center for Studying Health Spending, said in a statement that while healthcare jobs have helped offset the declines in other sectors, the health sector is likely to peak in the near future.

“Although health employment will continue to rise, we expect non-health employment will grow more rapidly so that health employment’s share of the total will stabilize,” he said.

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Health Care Spending Declines to 50-Year Low - Nursing Link

U.S. health care spending in 2009 grew at the slowest rate in 50 years, as the recession and high unemployment caused outlays for nearly all medical goods and services to slow or decline, according to a new government report released Wednesday.

Unlike previous recessions, when spending for health services began to slow some two years after an economic downturn, the effect of the Great Recession was swift and profound on insurers, health care providers and patients in both 2008 and 2009.

Total public and private spending for health services grew by 4 percent to $2.5 trillion, or $8,086 per person in 2009.

That’s up from $7,845 per person in 2008 when annual health outlays increased only 4.7 percent, which was the second-slowest growth rate in the last half a century, the Department of Health and Human Services reported.

Fueling the spending slowdown in 2009 was a 3.2 percent decline in private health insurance enrollment as 6.3 million people lost job-based health coverage that year. That loss of private coverage also curbed growth in out-of-pocket spending by patients, many of whom delayed medical care because of a lack of cash.

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