A new report from the Federal Trade Commission makes a number of proposals that states can adopt to improve interstate mobility for workers in licensed professions. The Report released today [...]
A new report by Peter Buerhaus from the American Enterprise Institute provides a thorough review of the literature on nurse practitioners’ ability to provide primary care services and reaches an [...]
During a crisis, good ideas that were either unpopular or failed to attract public interest in normal times can be rebranded and repurposed to address a specific shock to the [...]
1. Expanding scope-of-practice for nurse practitioners would reduce the primary care physician shortage by 70%. 2. How guaranteeing high-quality child care blocks access to those who need it most.
Writing in the fall issue of Regulation magazine, Ryan Bourne of the Cato Institute discusses how well-meaning regulations on providers of child care (pre-school and daycare) increase the costs of [...]
Last week, I wrote about the potential for nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) to address the looming primary care physician shortfall in the United States. The Association of [...]
1. Expanded scope-of-practice for nurses and physician assistants would help address the physician shortage. 2. Uniform Bar Exam expands to 33 jurisdictions. 3. Iowa moves on rules for psychologist prescribing. [...]
The United States faces a serious shortage of physicians. In 2016, this shortage was estimated to be around 20,000 and the shortfall is projected to grow to 120,000 by 2030 [...]
Lawyers, in addition to making up a sizable portion of the top 1% of earners, are one of the most heavily licensed professions and workers in the legal profession benefit [...]
In 2016, Iowa became the fourth state in the nation to allow psychologists to prescribe medication to patients. Unfortunately, formal rules for the process have been 18 months in the [...]