Add to this the Trump administration’s appalling cuts to disease prevention and medical research, and forthcoming cuts to Medicaid, and our state and national health care scenario doesn’t look the slightest bit “great.”

Don’t worry Larry. There are literally billions more people on the earth than when I was born. Women have been having abortions as long as the Human has existed, yet there are still an unhealthy number of us on the planet.

One thing, though . If you read the reporting over at the other daily Wyoming online news channel , you would think their reporters and the WyoFile reporters attended two different hearings …

A couple of things Larry. I grew up in a small town in Montana that had a Catholic hospital. The order of nuns who operated the place were running out of fresh recruits and gave the hospital up to the local community. I remember that the local newspaper had an article about the new administrator and what he was being paid. I worked for a rancher in the summer at the time. He was just blown away by what the administrator was being paid. I think it was around $20,000/year, about the same as my rancher employer grossed out of his small ranch. Never mind what the administrator’s job entailed. Lots more responsibility for one thing. The other little story I have is meeting a woman (a relative of a relative) who was a Catholic nun and spent her career as a hospital administrator. She did a job, basically for room and board, that as you say pays more than most doctors. Maybe if we could rustle up some new Catholic nuns who are willing to work for free hospitals wouldn’t be so expensive.