In this era of skyrocketing healthcare costs, doctors want to reduce competition. It’s all for the children though. Naturally. Pediatricians Seek Curbs on Non-Doctors explains:
The nation’s largest group of pediatricians wants lawmakers to maintain limits on the kind of health care non-doctors, such as nurse practitioners and physician assistants, can give to children.The American Academy of Pediatrics is encouraging its doctors to work to block legislation that would allow non-doctors to practice and write prescriptions independently and permit parity in insurance reimbursement.