[OC] Wenn man die Beschäftigung im Gesundheitswesen ausschließt, haben die USA seit 2024 Arbeitsplätze verloren

Why would you exclude healthcare employment?

What is „Private Ed.“ lumped in with healthcare?

And the Healthcare sector is losing many of its subsidies this year, lol.

I’m a Scientist in Pharma, most every company I know has been outsourcing skilled and intellectual labor jobs. The „Healthcare“ jobs this refers too are probably wiping old people’s butts for minimum wage.

Edit: The US government cut R&D funding for private companies, they cut our biodefense spending, the covid ACA subsidies weren’t renewed, and Medicare advantage subsidies are only going up by 0.09% (much less than inflation).

If you exclude healthcare then there are actually no healthcare workers at all in the US!!

Do health insurance jobs count towards healthcare numbers?

Is the growth linked to the population getting older?

We jnow this, manufacturing jobs have been shipped away for decades. And with those jobs come with a mix of white and blue collar work

“If you exclude jobs, the US lost jobs in 2024”

Comment after comment: so? Healthcare is part of the economy.

Me: ever heard the saying „don’t put all your eggs in 1 basket?“

If common sense and an old saying about considering consequences is getting lost on translation; how about that capitalism is the best economic system because it encourages competition and options for the consumer? The US has long been used as *the* example of the success of capitalism through a robust economy – does a robust economy mean 1-2 economic sectors are showing growth when the others *do not?*

*Why* this is the situation is another conversation worth having but since nobody can agree on the color of shit when the house is on fire – I’d say you all are missing yet another warning sign that we, the people, are being lied to and manipulated regarding economics and politics as these issues continue to accumulate and the can continues to be kicked down the road. It will sure suck to be here when the Monopoly money is finally shown for what it is – the fiat currency has only the value we believe it has. Very different topic but I see all of these things as connected by the same system.

It is important to keep health insurance as expensive and convoluted as possible so that these doctors and hospitals have to hire huge teams to deal with it.

It’s misleading to chart one variable against the sum of all others like this. The graph seems to imply that healthcare jobs went up, whereas every other type of job went down. But since every other job is being summed together, you are obscuring data about any other jobs that might have gone up too. It’s possible other jobs are like healthcare and have similarly risen in this time period, but are being lumped into a sum.

Right but presumably if healthcare didn’t suck up so many resources, they would just be redirected to another sector. 

I don’t know if this is really that surprising. In my hometown, the city hospital often takes the year with the most employed people and we have some big manufacturing plants out here. Is this not the same for every town?