New Jobs For New Healthcare: 5 Ideas for Growing A Careforce For The 21st Century

Posted on | January 27, 2010 | Comments Off on New Jobs For New Healthcare: 5 Ideas for Growing A Careforce For The 21st Century

Eric Dishman

In a blog entry months ago, I wrote about how Baby Boomer women–and creating a new “careforce”–are critical for healthcare reform to succeed. And I promised back then to put out some ideas the following week for creative ways to grow that innovative workforce. Okay, I got sidetracked on other topics and missed my own deadline. But as the President must surely be rehearsing his State of the Union address for tomorrow–that will probably include lots of talk about “jobs creation”–I think it’s high time to revisit those questions and ideas. Many opponents of healthcare reform keep telling the President to drop his “healthcare agenda” in favor of a “jobs agenda,” but to me, those two agendas are deeply intertwined.