A passing grade senator Tester

(U.S. Senate) - Following #NationalNursesWeek, U.S. Senator Jon Tester today announced a nearly $700,000 investment to address Montana's nursing shortage.

This announcement follows Tester's statewide health care tour, when he sat down with nurses, doctors and patients to hear directly about the state's most pressing health care needs. Montana currently has a shortage of at least 800 nurses.
The grant will be awarded to Montana State University to recruit and train nursing students to practice within the full scope of their licenses, allowing them to act as primary care providers.

"Montana's frontier communities are hit hard by nurse shortages," Tester said. "This funding helps build a pipeline of nurses to serve in rural areas so whether your kid has the flu or you need some stitches, you can get fixed up without driving hundreds of miles."
The grant comes just a month after Tester urged congressional leadership to draft a budget that prioritizes health care funding for underserved and rural areas.
"An investment in our nursing workforce today is a commitment to America's health care now and into the future," Tester wrote in his funding request.

Tester secured this grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as part of its Nursing Workforce Development initiative to better train and recruit nurses for entry level through advanced practice.

OK, you walked the production line, in Montana, figured a partial solution, and got your earmark.

I propose  deal, a job.  Sen. Tester, you do that for the whole nation and find solutions to the scale problems where it counts, where the Swamp can save money. The the House will grant your state capital an additional 6 million. A much better deal and we use your new found expertise in the nursing labor market.

If you must hire nurses from the national budget then how? I would think minimization means militarize the nurses, make then the operating grunt of the emergency medical forces. Do that and dump the Texas pace cadets. The new military force produces nurse tech trained up to and including emergency room care. They serve for a finite number of years, then can be moved into private service.

So why did Sen Tester and his national military nurses get over ruled by a Texas Space Cadet fantasy?  The choice is obvious, the medical forces produce workers for the Swamp medical interventions, which is happening one way or the other. It offer positive side effects, the other is simply a bunch of idiot politicians from Texas, and they have a severe rural medical shortage of their own.