Obama and others have indicated that the growth in Medical Care is unsustainable. I am sure that all here are familiar with these
statements. I looked at health care employment by occupation and by
sector to see from where we might move people if the nation decided
it needed more health care employees.The entire health
care system employs 16.5 million people.
About ten million of these are actually doing health care such as technicians,
nurses aids, registered nurses and of course physicians.
By comparison, retail trade is 15,000,000 and restaurants employ 9.6 million
people.
All types of government from localities to states
to the federal government employ only 10,000,000 people.
Briefly, I look at statistics on the amount of money we are spending on
medical device manufacturers and our balance of trade in this important
area.
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