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· According to the statistics released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), U.S. national healthcare expenditures exceeded one trillion U.S. dollars in 1994, accounting for 14% of its GNP as the world’s 7th economy, even greater than the GNP of UK and Italy.
· Due to the sharp increase of the senior citizen population ages 65 and over, the U.S. healthcare expenditures have been growing at the rate of 12-14% annually since 1994. The healthcare industry has become the largest enterprise in the U.S. with an average expenditure of more than $4,000 per capita per year.
· In the year of 2002, U.S. healthcare expenditures had reached 1.7 trillion U.S. dollars. By 2005, the healthcare expenditures have grown up to 17% of the U.S. GNP. According to the U.S. Bureau of Census, the nation’s healthcare workforce totaled 1.5 million people in 2002, which accounts for more than 10% of the total national workforce. The anticipated need for healthcare personnel is projected to be a 30% growth between 2002 and 2012, compared to the projected growth of 13.5% for the non-healthcare sectors. Of the top 10 fastest growing occupations in the country, 6 are health-related jobs.
· According to the research study conducted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in July 2002, it is estimated that there will be a shortage of 200,000 physicians, 125,000 pharmacists, 65,000 medical technologists, 55,000 physical therapists, and 1 million registered nurses in the country by 2020.
