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6 Lessons on Selling your Recruiting Firm: # 1 the why

  Ever wanted to sell your healthcare staffing agency? There are many reasons why owners come to a point that the thought of selling their medical recruiting firm is on the table: retirement, exhaustion, debt and change of career are just a few of the reasons.

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Donald Trump and Affordable Care

Donald Trump and Affordable Care Act   As Donald Trump moves closer to becoming the Republican’s presidential candidate in the general election, there are new ramblings of what he would do to Obamacare if elected. Many arguments have been made against the continuance of this growing governmental entity, but odds

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The latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act

Late last year the Supreme Court decided to hear the latest legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act. One item at issue is the Act’s provision to pay health insurance companies subsidies to help offset the cost of out-of-pocket expenses for low income policyholders that purchase insurance through a government

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Manage The Margin Killers in Healthcare Staffing!

In a prior post we discussed two areas that can greatly affect margins in the healthcare staffing world; unemployment and workers compensation. These two components of the cost of labor are directly applied to actual payroll amounts, thus decreasing the gross margin.

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State Medicaid Expansion and the 2012 Electoral Map

Last year the Supreme Court ruled on tenets of the Affordable Care Act that withheld Federal funding from states that chose not to expand their Medicaid programs to include many of the nation’s current uninsured. The ruling denied the Feds ability to withhold existing Medicaid funding if the state did

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Will your next nurse be a man?

Have you ever wondered what the odds are that you will have a male nurse? If your guess is “not very likely”, you’re right. However, based on census data just released, the odds are growing every year that your next nurse could be a male.

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