States need to get 'boomer-ready'
[8 August 2004 - The Morning Call] Soaring health care costs, coupled with the looming retirement of a record 77 million Americans starting in 2011, are casting a shadow of concern over states that worry their public health care systems can't shoulder the burden of the aging baby boom generation. The problem is of such proportions that Idaho's Republican Gov. Dirk Kempthorne, outgoing chairman of the National Governors Association, spent the past year studying how states can get ''boomer-ready. ...