Care Providers on the Affordable Care Act
From the president of the Business Roundtable to a HP sales manager-turned-nurse practitioner, what they have to say
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Gerald Whitney Santangelo, 47, of Arlington Heights, Ill., quit his job at Hewlett-Packard this year. He’s studying to become a nurse practitioner.
For the last 16 years I’ve worked at Hewlett-Packard in several senior sales positions. I’ve recently made a decision to go back to school. It was an absolutely gut-wrenching decision. I’m giving up a salary of more than $150,000 a year. I’ll be lucky to make 50 percent of that. At the same time, I believe in universal health care. I wanted to find where I could serve the individual, not an organization.
We’re going to need nurse practitioners. It’s going to be a very long process, and it’s actually very daunting. I’ll be 54 or 55 at the end of my studies.