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Expanded Coverage Appears To Explain Much Of The Recent Increase In Health Job Growth
The rate of health sector hiring started to increase in the middle of 2014, and has continued to accelerate through the first three quarters of 2015. The timing of this acceleration corresponds to the recent expansion of health insurance coverage, but thus far there is little direct evidence of a relationship between expanded coverage and health jobs.
We use state-level data on health jobs and insurance coverage to show that much of the acceleration in health jobs can be explained by expanded coverage. This suggests that as insurance coverage stabilizes, health job growth should revert back to more typical historical level...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - November 20, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Charles Roehrig, Ani Turner and Katherine Hempstead Tags: Costs and Spending Featured Health Professionals Insurance and Coverage American Community Survey Bureau of Labor Statistics Current Employment Statistics health sector jobs Source Type: blogs
Free Trade Reveals, Not Causes, The Problem with America’s Labor Market
In the latest print edition of National Review, you’ll find my lengthy cover story on international trade policy and its actual effects on the U.S. economy and labor market. The abbreviated version of my piece (though you certainly should read the whole thing!), is that, while free trade has provided overwhelming benefits for the vast majority of American families, workers and businesses, its inevitable displacement of some workers has revealed serious problems in the U.S. labor market’s ability to reallocate people from older, less productive sectors to new and innovative ones. This collapse in “labor dynamism...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 5, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Scott Lincicome Source Type: blogs
Who Benefits from Opportunities in the Online Platform Economy?
The rise of new business models in online platforms and the sharing economy have inevitably been met with calls for more regulations. In his most recent budget, President Obama proposed to expand funding for efforts to “crac[k] down on the illegal misclassification of some employees as independent contractors.” Policymakers at the state and local levels have also called for more stringent regulations on these new business models.
Over the weekend, voters in Austin failed to overturn the city council’s ordinance that would impose a series of new regulations on ride-hailing companies operating in the city, from requiri...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 9, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Charles Hughes Source Type: blogs
Lessons from NYC’s Randomized Conditional Cash Transfer Program
The research organization MDRC recently released its comprehensive evaluation of Opportunity NYC- Family Rewards, a conditional cash transfer (CCT) pilot program with the goal of helping families break free of the cycle of poverty. This program is particularly notable because it is the first comprehensive CCT program in a developed country, and it was a large-scale randomized control trial. CCTs offer cash assistance, but only if certain conditions are met, in this case these conditions are concentrated in the three spheres of children’s education, preventive health care utilization and parents’ employment. There was n...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 2, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Charles Hughes Source Type: blogs
D.C.’s $15 Minimum Wage Will Dim Employment Prospects for Younger, Less-Skilled Workers
Yesterday the D.C. City Council unanimously approved a measure that would gradually raise the $10.50 minimum wage to $15.00 by 2020, and then index future increases to changes in the Consumer Price Index. These new scheduled increases will come on the heels of an already significant 39 percent increase currently being phased in. With the passage of this bill, D.C follows California and in passing substantial minimum wage hikes beyond the scope of past experience in the U.S. The related adverse disemployment effects will primarily impact younger workers and people with limited job skills or educational attainment, putting...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 8, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Charles Hughes Source Type: blogs
The Doctors Club
By ANISH KOKA, MD
Vatsal Thakkar, a psychiatrist, recently wrote of the perks doctors are afforded in everyone’s favorite instrument of social justice – the New York Times. Dr. Thakkar speaks effectively and correctly about a broken health care system navigated best by pulling the ‘doctor’ card. Some on the progressive left have seized on this blatant disregard for egalitarianism as yet another example of a broken healthcare system, despite the fact that a two tiered system is exactly what they have been building over the last eight years.
To be clear, there has always been special treatment accorded fellow doct...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Seattle ’s Minimum Wage Increase: Sky Is Not Falling Yet, but “Ambiguous” Effects for Low-Wage Workers Due to Negative Unintended Consequences
This study only encompasses the first step of the phase-in, and later scheduled increases will raise the wage floor to levels that are outside the scope of most past U.S. experiences, making it difficult to estimate the m agnitude of potential effects. Some of the minimum wage literature has found that the long-run effects of an increase are greater in magnitude, as the authors of this report note saying “in the long-run, certain industries affected by the minimum wage, such as the fast food industry, have more opp ortunity to relocate, change the composition of their workforce, or invest in technologies that reduce thei...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 29, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Charles Hughes Source Type: blogs
The Bipartisan Push to Fully Restore the Export-Import Bank
Export-Import Bank supporters are back at it again. According to a document from the Office of Management and Budget, the administration isreportedly asking lawmakers to include a provision restoring the agency ’s full lending authority as part of the continuing resolution that needs to be passed in order to keep the government functioning after September 30th. It was just a few weeks before his election in 2008 thatObama said it had “become little more than a fund for corporate welfare,” and cited it as an example of why he wasn’t someone “who believes we can or should defend every government program just becaus...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 7, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Charles Hughes Source Type: blogs
Trumping En Masse Through the Revolving Door - the Trump Advisory and Transition Teams
We have frequently posted on therevolving door as a type of severe conflict of interest, if not corruption, affecting health care. Our posts have covered various cases of people going from influential positions in or related to health care and some anti-health corporations, and government positions that make health care policy or regulate health care. Donald J Trump, the president elect, has pledged to " drain the swamp, " that is, to generally reduce crony capitalism, conflicts of interest, the revolving door, and government corruption (e.g., lookhere.) However, it appears that his campaign advisory/ tran...
Source: Health Care Renewal - November 18, 2016 Category: Health Management Tags: Altria Celgene Cerberus conflicts of interest Donald Trump Pfizer PhRMA Purdue Pharma revolving doors Source Type: blogs
What ’ s Behind 2.5 Million New Health Jobs?
December 2007 marked the start of the most severe recession in modern times. For more than two years, the economy shed jobs. By the start of 2010, there were 8.6 million fewer jobs than at the start of the recession. These losses would have been greater had health care employment not continued to grow; jobs outside health care fell by 9.2 million while health care added nearly 600 thousand jobs. It took until November 2014 for non-health jobs to return to their pre-recession level, at which point health jobs had grown by 1.7 million. As of January 2017, there are 2.5 million more health jobs than at the start of the recess...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - March 17, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Charles Roehrig, Ani Turner and Katherine Hempstead Tags: Costs and Spending Health Professionals Hospitals 2007 recession ambulatory care settings diagnosing and treating practitioners efficiency health sector job growth Source Type: blogs
Could California Become a Model for the Single Payer Movement?
By ABIGAIL HAYES
With concern rising that a Republican alternative to Obamacare could fail to adequately cover pre-existing conditions (“Eight billion won’t even begin to cover it,” one Washington insider told THCB late this week) and will likely sharply cut benefits for Medicaid recipients, a number of states are preparing contingency plans. Some are preparing legal challenges. In California, progressives are once again laying the groundwork for a single payer system.
Could it happen? And could California serve as a model for other states?
California, the largest state in the union by population and...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 5, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized California Medi-Cal Medicaid Expansion Sanctuary Cities SB562 Single payer Source Type: blogs
Cities Notice Decline in Latino Crime Reporting Post-Trump
Effective policing requires that crime witnesses and victims contact the police and that citizens trust law enforcement. Without such trust and communication crimes go unsolved, criminals run free, and victims live in fear. Sadly, it looks as if the Trump administration ’s immigration rhetoric could have prompted achilling effect on Latino crime reporting. The father of modern policing, the British statesman Sir Robert Peel, understood how important public approval of the police is in order for police officers to effectively do their jobs. Peel founded London ’s Metropolitan Police Force in 1829. The force issued new...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 25, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Matthew Feeney Source Type: blogs
The Jobs Conundrum
At next week ’s FOMC meeting, the state of the labor market will play a key role in policy deliberations. But there’s a lot more going on underneath top line unemployment numbers that make them a bad tool for monetary policy decision-making.The May employment reportis a conundrum. Employment growth and the unemployment rate sent opposing signals about labor market conditions — much like they have been doing throughout the recovery. The economy added138,000 jobs last month, with the three-month average only at 121,000 jobs, suggesting labor market weakness.By contrast, the unemployment rate fell to 4.3 percent — the...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 8, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Gerald P. O ' Driscoll Jr. Source Type: blogs
Fax This to Washington: Hospital Consolidation Threatens Our Healthcare System
By NIRAN AL-AGBA, MD
As hospital consolidations sweep the nation, the monopolies being created are having a profound impact on life in small town America. Lee County, in Southern Georgia, is a little place with big dreams; they are resolutely determined to build a 60-bed community hospital and provide local residents with real choices. For years, two competing hospitals served the population of 200,000 spread over six counties: Phoebe-Putney and Palmyra Park. Phoebe-Putney Memorial Hospital put an end to that by securing a 939-bed hospital monopoly and an ample market share.
Their efforts began in 2003, when Phoebe-Putne...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 11, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Setting New Year ’s Goals? Even Little Changes Can Make a Big Difference
Whether you think the past year flew by too fast or look to the New Year as a chance to make some positive changes in your life, the change of the calendar can bring some new feelings to the forefront.
As audiologists and speech-language pathologists, we look to improve outcomes for our clients, students and patients. Many of us feel overworked and under pressure to help make changes in the lives of the people we serve. Now’s a time to take stock of how to improve our own lives, so we can better prepare to help others.
Here are some tips that I used in the past few months to help me clear my mind and be the best clinicia...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - January 8, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Dan Fitch Tags: Audiology Speech-Language Pathology Professional Development Source Type: blogs
