The healthcare industry is about jobs and people. Its employment increased from 8.7  percent of the U.S. workforce in 1998 to 10.5 percent in 2008 (15.8 million) and will be 11.9 percent in 2018 (19.8 million) – a 23 percent increase versus 9 percent for all other industries.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), in the next decade, increases in its white and blue collar employment will accelerate at rates above any other industries. Consider:
• Registered nurses to increase 22.2 percent
• Licensed practice and licensed vocational nurses to increase 20.7 percent
• Home health aides to increase 50 percent
• Nursing aids, orderlies, and attendants to increase 18.8 percent
• Personal and home care aides to increase 46 percent
• Physicians to increase 21.8 percent
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