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Editor's e-Note
The new year has brought us health care reform's expected anxieties and a surprising one: an extremely rare—twice in 23 years—dip in overall health care employment. It’s the topic of this month’s E-News Exclusive, but likely nothing to panic about.

— Jim Knaub, editor
e-News Exclusive
Is the December Health Care Employment Drop Just a Blip?
By Jim Knaub

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week that health care employment in the United States dropped this past December—for only the second month since 1990. The bursting of the speculative dot-com bubble couldn’t do it, nor the slowdown after the September 11, 2001 attacks. Even the subprime mortgage-driven Great Recession of 2008 couldn’t do the job, but last month it happened.

But one data point doesn’t make a trend, and it could represent just a blip on the chart—like this chart from BusinessInsider.com. Given that December was the month before the health care exchange provisions of the Affordable Care Act kicked in, it isn’t hard to think that health organizations may be skittish about the impending change.

Looking at trends localized to imaging, the American Society of Radiologic Technologists’ (ASRT) Radiologic Sciences Staffing and Workplace Survey 2013, which gathered its data this past August to September and was published in November, reflected a continuing softness in the technologist market. The 2013 survey (based on 1,145 responses) reported these findings:

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Worth Repeating
“Primary care physicians [PCPs] rely on advanced imaging and see it as a critical tool in their practice arsenal. And the partnership between PCPs and radiologists can only be bolstered as referring physicians gain a deeper understanding of the benefits of advanced imaging.”

— Christine Hughes, a health care economics expert with the Hadley Hart Group, during a presentation at RSNA 2013
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