pull down to refresh
42 sats \ 9 replies \ @Bell_curve 13 Jul
Manufacturing was big in 1990
Health care is the largest employer in most states in 2024.
Too many people are employed in health care, mostly admin folks, not even medical professionals. Bureaucratic displacement.
@Undisciplined
@SimpleStacker
@gmd
reply
0 sats \ 8 replies \ @Undisciplined 13 Jul
Too many people are sick, too.
reply
42 sats \ 5 replies \ @Bell_curve 18h
Comes with an aging population to some extent but also a function of the corporatization of healthcare, big pharma to big healthcare orgs
Over reliance on third party payment and the third party is either the federal government or state government
reply
11 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined 13h
Fat sick young people isn't because of an aging population.
reply
42 sats \ 3 replies \ @Bell_curve 9h
But the increase in health care employment is in administration not actual practitioners like doctors and nurses
reply
11 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 9h
True, prices wouldn't have risen nearly as much if the supply of practitioners were able to grow. Unfortunately, the AMA is a cartel and artificially limits supply.
view all 2 replies
21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 22h
At least 50 percent of health care spending is financed by the government or taxpayers
reply
11 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 13h
Wow! I bet a lot of the rest is because of government insurance mandates/incentives.
reply
0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 18h
The majority of healthcare employees are union members, SEIU, a thuggish organization subsidized by taxpayers
reply
0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Macoy31 13 Jul outlawed
stackers have outlawed this. turn on wild west mode in your /settings to see outlawed content.