The State of Wisconsin is looking toward its future and it sees a bleak picture for their own healthcare needs. From The Chronotype:
People over 65 years old make up about 20% of the population, but account for over 40% of health care usage. That demographic is expected to continue to grow, according to the report. By 2030, one in five Americans will be at retirement age, along with roughly one in four Wisconsinites.
The Chronotype
The article reports shortages of nursing, doctors and other healthcare workers will make it very difficult to get medical services in the future in Wisconsin. Will residents of Wisconsin hang around for things to get better or will they head to warmer climates and bigger population centers like Texas and Florida in the future?
Healthcare shortages aren’t the only thing plaguing Wisconsin because there is also a shortage of public defenders and prosecutors in the state. From The Daily Cardinal:
In Dodge County, outgoing district attorney Kurt Klomberg resigned after citing “untenable” conditions due to the loss of “all working prosecution staff before the end of January 2023” in a letter to Governor Evers. Evers later appointed Andrea Will, a Waukesha County attorney, to fill the position until January 2025, according to WPR.
The Daily Cardinal
No doctors, nurses, lawyers or prosecutors in Wisconsin? Will it get better anytime soon? If so how? Where will the people come from to fill these roles? Other states? If you’ve been following along, you know that every state has labor shortages of some kind and the problem is simple: It’s The Boomers Stupid!
Stay tuned, stay profitable and stay solvent…