Obama Creating Jobs

Healthcare Modernization

January 15, 2009 | Posted by admin

As Barack Obama has stated, he intends to push for health care modernization as one of his key initiatives with $59 Billion allocated towards the health care part of the stimulus plan. This means improving the quality of care while lowering its cost. In order to do this all of our medical records will need to be computerized which will result in faster and more accurate processing of data thus greatly reducing preventable medical errors, eliminating red tape, and cutting waste.

There may also be subsidies to help train more nurses and physician assistants to address both a current shortage and a pending greater shortage in this industry. Both registered nurses and physician assistants will be taking on more of the load from doctors as part of this health care reform. These positions do pay rather well (sometimes over $110K annually), but it is a less expensive alternative to provide quality affordable health care than having many jobs fall solely on higher paid doctors. Becoming an RN takes about 2 years of education, sometimes at community colleges, often with education costs covered by the state government, plus many training programs will have a job waiting for you once you graduate.

Also needed to manage all this increasing health care business are health care administrators. Like nursing, health care administration training and education can be covered by the state government.

It is also likely that there will be new spending to expand health care coverage lost from employers as well as subsidization of states’ share of Medicaid and children’s health programs, so look for jobs in professions that support these areas.

Other than nurses, some of the other types of jobs to be created by this initiative are Information Technology and IT security specialists, IT managers, Bioinfomatics specialists, Software developers, and employees to handle all the data entry and maintenance. Data entry positions training can be obtained at local colleges and may even have state government subsidies, so be sure to research government grants to see how you can benefit.

Not only do we now have a president that is going to push hard for health care reforms but we also have the baby boomers getting to the age where more health care will be needed by an increasing percentage of our population. Employment in these fields are sure to pay well and be in good demand for years to come, recession or not, so get on the right track with the right education and get your piece of this recession proof area of employment.

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