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Baby Boomers Retire: Health Care Spiders Surge

My apologies for off-topic. I posted to the wrong form.

Baby Boomers Retire: Health Care Spiders Surge

The problem with the retirement of the Baby Boomers is that this includes Baby Boomer healthcare providers. The healthcare workforce is aging. New entrants into the healthcare workforce are more focused on lifestyle and flexible scheduling than in the past. This isn't to denigrate newer workers; it's just a fact. The shortage of primary care providers is just the tip of the iceberg.

Another issue is the affordability of healthcare. Traditionally, healthcare employers got by offering benefits packages that were in all ways inferior to those offered by other industries. Before reforms in hiring eliminated this inequity, it was said that a girl graduating from high school had limited career options. As for professions, her choices were limited to nursing and teaching. The teachers have already retired with the full government benefits offered as incentives to teach. But the nurses are still laboring away, in many cases with comfortable retirements growing further out of reach with each passing year.

It will be interesting to see how well the retiring Baby Boomers are served by our strained healthcare system.