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Workforce and US Health Care Trends

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What are some workforce related challenges the United States may face in the future and why are these changes important to the health care market?

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Age of employees, outsourcing and other trends affecting health care discussed.

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The trend toward downsizing, outsourcing to overseas, temp agencies, contractual and non-union workers has a huge implication for employment, let alone health care.

Paying for health care is expensive to start with and if a company wants to hire experienced and seasoned workers, the tendency for older employees costing more, with regard to health care, is notable. If more and more people fail to have health coverage, they may tend to avoid valuable prevention, health ...

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