**Sources**: Bureau of Labor & Statistics “Employment by Industry” from Feb 11 2026
**Tools**: Matplotlib, Figma
BidenGlazer on
Why would you exclude healthcare employment?
Swaglfar on
But… why. I bet you could do that with every country and get a similar result?
nxwtypx on
What is “Private Ed.” lumped in with healthcare?
BDM78746 on
If you choose which data points to include or ignore, you can make up any outcome. I’m not sure what point this makes. There are plenty of other non-healthcare and private ed. job sectors on this graph that are also up.
Personal-Walrus-3682 on
And the Healthcare sector is losing many of its subsidies this year, lol.
I’m a Scientist in Pharma, most every company I know has been outsourcing skilled and intellectual labor jobs. The “Healthcare” jobs this refers too are probably wiping old people’s butts for minimum wage.
Edit: The US government cut R&D funding for private companies, they cut our biodefense spending, the covid ACA subsidies weren’t renewed, and Medicare advantage subsidies are only going up by 0.09% (much less than inflation).
Harrigan_Raen on
What kind of BS logic is this?
Geofferz on
If you exclude healthcare then there are actually no healthcare workers at all in the US!!
Faraday5 on
Its amazing how so many people itt are confused about the purpose of this data, or unsure what it’s trying to show. I think its just showing that the only reason for job growth is this one particular sector
IsleofManc on
Do health insurance jobs count towards healthcare numbers?
Jidarious on
I don’t think removing Healthcare employment makes sense from any angle. If you just wanted to be critical of the administration you just have to bring up the fact that these numbers don’t jive with independent assessments, and are almost certainly lies after Trump gutted the department and replaced people with lackeys.
HeyItsDaniel on
mahomes regresses to the mean type of graph lmfaooo
mnightshaylafan02 on
Is the growth linked to the population getting older?
vfrflying on
If you exclude breakfast I didn’t eat today
Sgt_Revan on
We jnow this, manufacturing jobs have been shipped away for decades. And with those jobs come with a mix of white and blue collar work
s0ciety_a5under on
Definitely true. Everything is fucked.
2Cool4Stool on
“If you exclude jobs, the US lost jobs in 2024”
EnchiladaTiddies on
Gotta care for those rotting boomers somehow
freeshavocadew on
Comment after comment: so? Healthcare is part of the economy.
Me: ever heard the saying “don’t put all your eggs in 1 basket?”
If common sense and an old saying about considering consequences is getting lost on translation; how about that capitalism is the best economic system because it encourages competition and options for the consumer? The US has long been used as *the* example of the success of capitalism through a robust economy – does a robust economy mean 1-2 economic sectors are showing growth when the others *do not?*
*Why* this is the situation is another conversation worth having but since nobody can agree on the color of shit when the house is on fire – I’d say you all are missing yet another warning sign that we, the people, are being lied to and manipulated regarding economics and politics as these issues continue to accumulate and the can continues to be kicked down the road. It will sure suck to be here when the Monopoly money is finally shown for what it is – the fiat currency has only the value we believe it has. Very different topic but I see all of these things as connected by the same system.
dont_care- on
If you exclude all industries, the US has literally 0 jobs and the unemployment rate is 100%.
r/americabad
VikingMonkey123 on
It is important to keep health insurance as expensive and convoluted as possible so that these doctors and hospitals have to hire huge teams to deal with it.
Noctudeit on
Just means that healthcare is harder to automate.
Waja_Wabit on
It’s misleading to chart one variable against the sum of all others like this. The graph seems to imply that healthcare jobs went up, whereas every other type of job went down. But since every other job is being summed together, you are obscuring data about any other jobs that might have gone up too. It’s possible other jobs are like healthcare and have similarly risen in this time period, but are being lumped into a sum.
excessCeramic on
Wild hate in the comments. This is a well executed and extremely important analysis. An entire year of job growth attributed to a single (predatory) sector is worth knowing about.
czhu12 on
Right but presumably if healthcare didn’t suck up so many resources, they would just be redirected to another sector.
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**Sources**: Bureau of Labor & Statistics “Employment by Industry” from Feb 11 2026
**Tools**: Matplotlib, Figma
Why would you exclude healthcare employment?
But… why. I bet you could do that with every country and get a similar result?
What is “Private Ed.” lumped in with healthcare?
If you choose which data points to include or ignore, you can make up any outcome. I’m not sure what point this makes. There are plenty of other non-healthcare and private ed. job sectors on this graph that are also up.
And the Healthcare sector is losing many of its subsidies this year, lol.
I’m a Scientist in Pharma, most every company I know has been outsourcing skilled and intellectual labor jobs. The “Healthcare” jobs this refers too are probably wiping old people’s butts for minimum wage.
Edit: The US government cut R&D funding for private companies, they cut our biodefense spending, the covid ACA subsidies weren’t renewed, and Medicare advantage subsidies are only going up by 0.09% (much less than inflation).
What kind of BS logic is this?
If you exclude healthcare then there are actually no healthcare workers at all in the US!!
Its amazing how so many people itt are confused about the purpose of this data, or unsure what it’s trying to show. I think its just showing that the only reason for job growth is this one particular sector
Do health insurance jobs count towards healthcare numbers?
I don’t think removing Healthcare employment makes sense from any angle. If you just wanted to be critical of the administration you just have to bring up the fact that these numbers don’t jive with independent assessments, and are almost certainly lies after Trump gutted the department and replaced people with lackeys.
mahomes regresses to the mean type of graph lmfaooo
Is the growth linked to the population getting older?
If you exclude breakfast I didn’t eat today
We jnow this, manufacturing jobs have been shipped away for decades. And with those jobs come with a mix of white and blue collar work
Definitely true. Everything is fucked.
“If you exclude jobs, the US lost jobs in 2024”
Gotta care for those rotting boomers somehow
Comment after comment: so? Healthcare is part of the economy.
Me: ever heard the saying “don’t put all your eggs in 1 basket?”
If common sense and an old saying about considering consequences is getting lost on translation; how about that capitalism is the best economic system because it encourages competition and options for the consumer? The US has long been used as *the* example of the success of capitalism through a robust economy – does a robust economy mean 1-2 economic sectors are showing growth when the others *do not?*
*Why* this is the situation is another conversation worth having but since nobody can agree on the color of shit when the house is on fire – I’d say you all are missing yet another warning sign that we, the people, are being lied to and manipulated regarding economics and politics as these issues continue to accumulate and the can continues to be kicked down the road. It will sure suck to be here when the Monopoly money is finally shown for what it is – the fiat currency has only the value we believe it has. Very different topic but I see all of these things as connected by the same system.
If you exclude all industries, the US has literally 0 jobs and the unemployment rate is 100%.
r/americabad
It is important to keep health insurance as expensive and convoluted as possible so that these doctors and hospitals have to hire huge teams to deal with it.
Just means that healthcare is harder to automate.
It’s misleading to chart one variable against the sum of all others like this. The graph seems to imply that healthcare jobs went up, whereas every other type of job went down. But since every other job is being summed together, you are obscuring data about any other jobs that might have gone up too. It’s possible other jobs are like healthcare and have similarly risen in this time period, but are being lumped into a sum.
Wild hate in the comments. This is a well executed and extremely important analysis. An entire year of job growth attributed to a single (predatory) sector is worth knowing about.
Right but presumably if healthcare didn’t suck up so many resources, they would just be redirected to another sector.