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Tommy Thompson: “We're not educating the young people of our society enough…”

Featuring: Tommy Thompson, Conservative | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Wisconsin

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Ep26 - HHS Then & Now with Tommy Thompson

Published | Video Starts at 54:45

You've got to get information into young people about the importance of becoming a doctor and a nurse and how important healthcare is and how they can make a really good living, but they can make a difference, they can make a change. We're not educating the young people of our society enough to go into all of the healthcare fields. And they're all lacking as far as individuals. And so it's wide open. And you know, you can say, well, I don't want to go to school that long or so what, but start it. (54:45–54:53)

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Asserts that there is insufficient education for young people to enter healthcare fields.

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