Commentary
When you get older—I’m 67—one of the things that happens is you need more health care. I’ve written hundreds of editorials and columns calling for privatizing Medicare. Never happened. Now I’m on it. I’m finding it’s quite generous. What I worry about is making sure there are enough medical professionals around in a few years as my needs increase.
Pew Trusts reported last March 25:
“The lack of workers has become so dire that at least 20 governors this year directly addressed the situation in their state of the state speeches, proposing a range of policy fixes, according to the National Academy for State Health Policy, a nonpartisan forum of state health policymakers.”…