Healthcare Jobs
According to the Albany Business Review, healthcare is set to be a fast-growing industry as the nation enters 2015.
This is largely due to the Patient Protection and??Affordable Care Act, since more people with insurance coverage means??a greater number of??people needed to help run the medical sector. This trend has already begun in New York, where 225,000 people have enrolled in healthcare this year. The source noted that employment has not only been on the rise in strictly medical professions – as the industry grows, hiring has already started increasing in construction and similar jobs that grow as a result of new facilities being constructed to handle the number of people seeking healthcare.??
These effects can be seen in Oregon as well, where medical employment has grown by 80 percent since 2001, reported the Portland Business Journal. The health insurance sector alone employs about a quarter of all insurance professionals in the state. This field is expected to increase by nearly 2,000 workers over the next 10 years as a direct result of the Affordable Care Act, noted the source. Long-term care is also expected to grow significantly. Within the next decade it is set to add almost 12,000 positions, resulting in a 27 percent increase.??