Healthcare is 🇺🇸’s top employer https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/07/03/business/economy/healthcare-jobs.html

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The future also has a lot of old people with more complex health issues, for what that’s worth. Demographically not really set up to go /that/ hands off

i wonder how this will evolve in the future, as people take ownership of their capacity of dealing with health issues

and with more technology for doing that at home. like a simple pen to get bloodwork done, whoop like gadgets, etc

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Federal spending cuts more of a risk in the immediate. I don’t think it will be fully automated soon at all!

you think it will actually be automated soon?

I’m sure that will drop sharply soon as $180,000,000,000 in annual funding is cut.

From the stats I have seen, I think higher education is a big employer as well that is ignored. 

Having worked as a traveling physician, especially in more remote/rural areas, can validate that most patients are either former manufacturing/or descendent of manufacturing/mining sectors. But also a big industry that is not as much spoken of is higher education. 
Alongside the large hospitals, there are usually 1-2 universities even in the smallest cities. 

And in these cities and states, the two largest employers are hospitals and universities.