Editorial selection · Money & Power
Is This A Healthcare Economy?
Selected by Dylan Ratigan.
Article summary
The authors compare health-sector employment with the rest of the U.S. labor market using Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Health care added jobs while most other sectors barely grew.
From September 2025 to September 2026, health care added 372,000 jobs, or 2.0%, while the rest of the economy added 124,000, or 0.1%. Health care now represents an all-time-high 11.7% of U.S. jobs, raising both resilience and cost questions.