Higher health care prices in the United States are a key reason that the nation's health spending is so much higher than that of other countries. Our study compared physicians' [...]
This policy paper builds on FTC staff competition advocacy comments that focus on proposed state-level changes to statutes and rules governing the “scope of practice” of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses [...]
The issue of occupational regulation has been of academic interest from Adam Smith to Milton Friedman (Friedman 1962; Smith 1937). In Western democracies, the number of workers who are required [...]
In this issue of JAMA, Papanicolas and colleagues compared health care spending in the United States with health care spending in a select group of 10 of the highest-income countries [...]
Retail clinics are largely staffed by nurse practitioners (NPs) and are a popular destination for nonemergent care. We examined if there was a relationship between NP practice regulations and retail [...]
One proposed strategy to expand primary care capacity is to use nurse practitioners (NPs) more effectively in health care delivery. However, the ability of NPs to provide care to the [...]
The costs of primary care have been rising and access to it may become limited because of a possible shortage in primary care physicians. Some state governments have addressed this [...]
All of the regressions and test statistics generated to ascertain the effects on pharmacist availability consistently revealed the following: (1) Pharmacist-population ratios, the proxy for pharmacist availability, were found to [...]
State medical licensure boards are widely, if dimly, perceived as the keepers of the gate of the medical profession. When patients or their advocates are aggrieved by physicians, they sometimes [...]
A recent article in the Federation Bulletin by Shirley Svorny, comparing certification with licensure, suggests that medical licensure does not benefit consumers but, instead, serves the interests of physicians by [...]