Now We're A Cartel

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The lot of you rich bastards should be ashamed for wanting to take a skim off the treatment that those empathetic NPs and PAs could economically, safely deliver without you. I mean, it's common sense.

This is the ignorance we're up against, folks.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/05/24/tom_coburn_defends_the_doctors_cartel.html

Interesting (but stupid) article in that it doesn't really understand that PAs are regulated by the board of medicine in each state. I doubt NPs are looking to give PAs more independence. Doesn't really fit their agenda.
 
Not surprising from Slate, considering they already accused us of being a "pain-relief cartel" for opposing the practice of interventional pain medicine by CRNAs: "Anesthsleaziology"

That author is completely clueless. Painfully obvious.

We should allow surgical NP's to do appys and chole's.
 
funny how so many people favor increased regulation in every aspect of life (industry, mining, education, media, commerce) but are now demanding de-regulation for healthcare.

you'd think that the lessons they cite for increased regulation could just as easily be applied to medicine. 🙄
 
Wow.

What's interesting to me is that almost everyone seems to have an opinion on health care - from its delivery to how it should be practiced. Yet few take the time to really understand the current method of delivery. I once got in a deep discussion with someone about the delivery of health care in the US, who had very strong opinion, midway through the conversation he didn't even know there was such a thing called medicaid.

Got to love blogs... they're the new news. The fact that the author uses the word "cartel" shows his bias and desire to be inflammatory - ad-hominem even.
 
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