Growth In Health Care Jobs Slowing As Economic Problems Affect Hospitals

The pace of job growth in the health care industry has “slowed sharply” this year, as hospitals, pharmaceutical firms and health insurers experience trouble related to the continuing recession, the Wall Street Journal reports. In each of the first three months of 2009, the health care sector added an average of 17,000 jobs, less than half the rate of increase for 2008.

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Filed under: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance on April 15th, 2009