Aging US population is creating major job shortages in health care, says CEO of staffing solutions provider AMN

The health-care industry is swimming upstream when it comes to unemployment, says the CEO of hospital staffer AMN Healthcare Services. While the headline U.S. unemployment rate dipped below 4 percent in 2018, signaling powerful hiring trends, the health-care space has been a pocket of pain when it comes to hiring, Susan Salka, the president and CEO of AMN, told CNBC on Thursday.