Health sector job growth is flat for the first time in a decade, just as health care professionals are in demand mroe than ever.

Health care employment rose by only 2,500 jobs in July 2013, well below the 24-month average of 22,000, and the lowest jump since July 2003, according to the Altarum Institute.

An estimated 30 million more patients, who will be newly insured under Obamacare, is expected to flood the health care system beginning in 2014.

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