Is AHCA a Job Killer, Healthcare Recruiting Getting Harder, & Breaking into the Healthcare Industry

Salon.com wrote about why the AHCA, also known as Trump Care, may end up costing the economy around 3 million jobs.

But hospitals hiring in Trump country, where health sector growth has softened the blow from struggling industries like retailing or manufacturing, will also be hurt. As the New York Times recently noted, “while manufacturing employment has fallen nearly 40 percent in northeastern Ohio since 2000, the number of health care jobs in the region has jumped more than 30 percent over the same period.”

Job losses caused by Trumpcare won’t simply be restricted to the health care sector. Only about a third of the estimated 3 million job losses are expected to be in the healthcare sector. The remainder, researchers predict, will come in other industries as consumers have less disposable income to spend, as a result of higher health care costs with the elimination of generous government subsidies.

Fistful of Talent writer Tim Sackett wrote about why healthcare recruiters might soon become more important to hospitals and health systems than healthcare providers.

It seems like Healthcare recruiting has been in trouble forever. The great recession helped us forget about it for a long while, but as unemployment numbers continue to drop to historic lows, healthcare recruiting is becoming a full-blown crisis!

Check out some of these numbers from a recent SmashFly study:

• 439,000 new nursing jobs will be created by 2024
• 700,000 nurses will retire by 2024
• That means we need to ‘grow’ 1.1 million nurses in four years!

...In most healthcare organizations the doctors are God. In the next few years, the TA leaders might become slightly more important than the doctors! You need talent. No one has a magic pill for you. This is that hard work PTs make you go through after surgery! Get ready for a little bit of that ‘good’ pain!

Vocate Blog interviewed HospitalRecruiting.com's own Michael Jones about employment in the healthcare industry and how to get started in a healthcare career. 

Likewise, what are some things that someone job hunting can look for, to find the best, most satisfying jobs and career for themselves? 

This really depends on an individual's priorities, but in general people want jobs that pay well in a place that is suitable to their chosen lifestyle. Since healthcare jobs are available pretty much everywhere it pays to investigate multiple job markets to identify places where you as an individual will be in the highest possible demand. That might mean avoiding markets with training programs in your specialty, or popular vacation destinations, but that will still leave plenty of great options on the table.