In an effort to create more family doctors, President Clinton's health plan would empower the Federal Government to decide how many doctors should be trained each year as family practitioners, radiologists, surgeons, neurologists and other specialists....It would establish Federal regulation in a field now governed by the choices of medical students and teaching hospitals....
President Clinton will also propose vastly expanding the roles of nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, midwives, social workers and other health-care professionals who do not have M.D. degrees.
In the final draft of his health plan, Mr. Clinton says Congress should override many state laws that limit the scope of practice of such nonphysicians. Nurses support this proposal, but doctors vehemently oppose it. ...
Under Mr. Clinton's plan, the Government would enforce its decisions on the allocation of doctors by withholding money from any teaching hospital or training program that trains more than its quota of specialists.
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