Job growth keeps up with population growth

Bush promise 300k jobs a month

Actual for December: 157k

And I thought that health care workers were afraid of getting sued and afraid to work because of it. Guess not:

Health care and social assistance continued to add jobs over the month,
with an increase of 36,000. Over the year, employment in this industry rose
by 342,000. In December, employment increased in ambulatory health care ser-
vices (17,000), hospitals (5,000), and social assistance (13,000).