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Jul 28th, 2007 at 1:02 pm by Susie
Great Joshua Holland article about how healthcare is a major - and ailing - segment of the economy. Very informative!
(And by the way: I was just recently reminded that the vast majority of the people who take care of you in the hospital don’t have health care coverage, either. Everything’s been farmed out to per diem workers.)
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That was a great article but I would dispute to a point that there isn’t much outsourcing in industry. It is growing fast with all kind of tests from MRI’s to echo cardiograms being read by a Doctor in India.
Also the hospital company I use to work for was outsourcing a lot of the refund and dispute resolution out to India.
I say use to work for since my job in Philadelphia in the billing office was sent to Florida for cheaper labor. That was 125 or so jobs just lost and I’m sure they didn’t add that many people to the office in Florida. So that growth may be true but it’s not evenly spread over the country.
You’re right: there certainly is a lot of outsourcing in healthcare.
I may have been unclear, but what I was trying to say is that there is somewhat less outsourcing — and significantly less potential for offshoring — in healthcare than there is in most of the other sectors of the economy. In other words, it was a relative rather than an absolute statement.
JH
My mother is a nurse. She doesn’t have insurance. She is paid enough to live on, barely.
And they are bringing in Filapina nurses that will work for $7/hour instead of paying the American ones $10.
There is less outsourcing, because most of the work is hands-on and on-site. But, like trucking jobs going to Mexican drivers, and schools being turned into distance learning academies, there is some that happens in medicines as well.