I read an article the other day about two concepts. One was the mobile population in China. China has a mobile population of a quarter of a billion people that do not have permanent homes. They travel from one job or contract labor job to the next all over the country. Imagine a population the size of the US constantly moving and in flux.
Then I read a different article talking about a new change in the nursing industry. Nursing history has changed dramatically over the years, but possibly more dramatically in the last 2 decades than any other time.
Implementing a new system, or even political consultants recommend to work for a political season or as long as a campaign has the money, there is a new niche or profession being filled for travel nurse consultants. These were consultants their very loosely as they are not consultants but nurses that are working on a contract and hired to travel to work in a different area of the United States. These are typically not full-time or long-term positions, but they do require a temporary move over long distances.
The concept of travel nursing is not exactly a new one. Those people think of travel nursing and think of a nursemaid assisting an elderly person on a cruise or an airplane or something like that. They don’t necessarily think that if they show up to a hospital tomorrow, at the emergency room nurse helping them might actually be temporarily relocated from a different state working on a six or seven month contract.
Healthcare is playing a very large role in the election for president in 2008, and many of the candidates are working on health-care reform concepts that are over a decade old. They’re fixing the system from the 90s and they’re not looking at the system as it exists today in many regards. Hillary Clinton is not the only one guilty of this, Brock Obama and John Edwards both have proposals on the table seem to have their roots dated back to the 90s. Everyone seems to be focused on trying to fix the system has existed then and do so in a way that salt the dilemma that Hillary Clinton ran into the first time.
However the state of healthcare is changed dramatically in that time in bringing a solution to the table today time for 10 years ago is probably not going to solve anything.
Mobile Voting
anyway I digress from a topic just a bit, if you consider the movements of people in China and even in the United States, you might see a future where people are unable to register to vote in the state have been be living in one election comes around. This is typically handled with absentee ballots, but consider mobile professionals could relocate almost anywhere in register anywhere they choose. If you live no more than two or three months in any given city or state, you could are you registered to vote in the city or state of your choice.
If the United States mobile population of professionals increases even to a percentage level about China were 25% of our population becomes mobile on as he could see a major shift in the way that politics and elections play out in the United States. Red and blue states could change color from month to month based on the shift of mobile populations. Elections could become something akin to a cakewalk or musical chairs, with a last-place mobile professional population stops ends up deciding the election go to sleep.