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The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) annually projects employment by occupation and industry. These data provide insight into the future of the U.S. labor force based on past demographic and economic trends. In this blog post, we analyze these projections to understand the expected changes in the health care workforce over the next 10 years. These data suggest the significant growth seen in the health care industry will continue, albeit at a slower pace.

Altarum social psychologist Christine Stanik writes how limited data to inform policy and practice of PACE has hindered wider expansion of the eldercare model. Now a new funding opportunity from AHRQ has opened the door for Altarum to conduct the most thorough analysis of PACE innovations to date.

In this blog, we update information in these previous studies with estimates of state-level per-capita spending in 2022 and spending growth from 2019 through 2022. 

The latest HSEI briefs show that personal health care spending was adjusted upward, health care prices have continued to increase faster than overall inflation, and health care job growth in September accounted for a smaller share of economy-wide employment growth compared to the previous year.