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The demand for health care workers post-ACA

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  • Bianca Frogner
  • Joanne Spetz
  • Stephen Parente
  • Shelley Oberlin

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Concern abounds about whether the health care workforce is sufficient to meet changing demands spurred by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). We project that by 2022 the health care industry needs three to four million additional workers, forty percent of which is related to demand growth under the ACA. We project faster job growth in the ambulatory care sector, especially in home health care. Given the current profile, we expect that the future health care workforce will be increasingly female, young, racially/ethnically diverse, not US-born, at or below the poverty level and at a low level of educational attainment. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015

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  • Bianca Frogner & Joanne Spetz & Stephen Parente & Shelley Oberlin, 2015. "The demand for health care workers post-ACA," International Journal of Health Economics and Management, Springer, vol. 15(1), pages 139-151, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:ijhcfe:v:15:y:2015:i:1:p:139-151
    DOI: 10.1007/s10754-015-9168-y
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    1. Stephen T. Parente & Roger Feldman & Jean Abraham & Yi Xu, 2011. "Consumer Response to a National Marketplace for Individual Health Insurance," Journal of Risk & Insurance, The American Risk and Insurance Association, vol. 78(2), pages 389-411, June.
    2. Bianca Frogner, 2010. "The missing technology," Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, Springer, vol. 8(6), pages 361-371, November.
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    1. Dillender, Marcus & Friedson, Andrew & Gian, Cong & Simon, Kosali, 2019. "Does the healthcare educational market respond to short-run local demand?," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 73(C).
    2. Marcus Dillender & Andrew I. Friedson & Cong T. Gian & Kosali I. Simon, 2021. "Is Healthcare Employment Resilient and “Recession Proof”?," NBER Working Papers 29287, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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    Keywords

    Health workforce; Health reform; Microsimulation ; Projections; C53; I11; J21; J23;
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    JEL classification:

    • C53 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Forecasting and Prediction Models; Simulation Methods
    • I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
    • J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand

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