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This blog began around the compelling evidence mounting around the shortage of RN’s. The graph below is another view the result of a National Institute of Health publication of 2004, showing the demand for nurses (green line) against the supply based upon various assumptions on increasing supply of graduates. Still this isn’t the story, but [...]  Discussed in earlier posts, is a growing concern over the increasing demand for healthcare services, and shrinking number of providers. On April 14th of 2008, the Institute of Medicine published an exceptional report entitled “Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce”.
In 1943, the Economist F. A Hayek wrote: “One need not be a profit to be aware of impending dangers. An accidental combination of experience and interest will often reveal events to one man under aspects which few yet see.” Hayek was writing at a time when totalitarian socialism was running a muck in Europe [...] Sipping on a cup of joe at my local Starbucks, I began thinking about the various healthcare proposals discussed by our candidates for President. As you may have seen in my previous post, ideas such as these produce consequences, many of which are not particularly good. Anyway, as I continued, it seemed to me that [...] The growth in health care labor continues as again pointed out by Mike Mandel of Busienssweek. In the graph below I looked at non-seasonally adjusted growth within the three larger sub sectors of the health care provider market, and not to surprisingly that growth has been in the outpatient space. There can be many [...] |
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