July, 2012
By: John Rossheim, Senior Contributing Writer
Recent stories in the news about healthcare recruiting and hiring:
Healthcare Staffing: Understanding the Supreme Court Decision
In the wake of the Supreme Court decision upholding the Affordable Care Act (ACA), it seems that everyone is a doctor -- of spin, if not of medicine.
Political conservatives and commercial insurers rail against excessive powers of Federal government and unfair caps on their profits, respectively.
Pro-ACA providers express relief that they may continue efforts to bring more patients into the system rather than continue to treat them as outsiders, too often in the ER. Healthcare Finance News and Beckers Hospital Review offer around-the-table perspectives on the meaning of the court’s ruling, today and for years to come.
Recruiters have health insurers as clients, not just healthcare providers. (Commercial insurers’ stocks faired poorly on the day the court’s decision was announced.) The Supreme Court’s ACA ruling removes an important roadblock for healthcare staffing -- considerable uncertainty -- anathema to any decision to increase headcount.
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What the ACA Means at the State Level
As the Supreme Court decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act settles in, the healthcare-reform debate shifts back to the states.
The Federal ruling allows states to decide whether to participate in the ACA’s expansion of Medicaid, without fear of having their current Medicaid funding cut off, as detailed in Kaiser Health News.
Governors in some states (Florida, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin to date) have said that they may not accept the funds.
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How the ACA Could Impact Healthcare Recruitment
It’s not that anyone expected healthcare staffing to lurch to a halt if the Supreme Court decision had struck down the expansion of the healthcare system central to the Affordable Care Act.
In fact, Healthcare Leaders Media reports in a Georgetown University study that healthcare staffing is expected to add several million jobs by 2020. The hard truth is that much job growth in the industry is due to low productivity, the study says.
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