… or, If We Beg, Will You Go Into Primary Care? What if tomorrow 30% of the nation’s plumbers disappeared?  Perhaps they vanish due some fantastic science fiction experiment gone horribly wrong.  What would happen?  Would a national plumber group call for making plumbing a more attractive profession?  Would there be a cry for greater federal plumbing subsidies to draw more people from other fields into plumbing? No.  (Or at least, I hope not.)  In the short term, there would be a terrible shor...