Author: John C. Goodman

Nurses Against Competition with other Nurses

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According to the Minnesota Board of Nursing:

The Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) allows a nurse (RN and LPN/VN) to have one compact license in the nurse’s primary state of residence (the home state) with authority to practice in person or via telehealth in other compact states (remote states). The nurse must follow the nurse practice act of each state. The mission of the Nurse Licensure Compact is: The Nurse Licensure Compact advances public protection and access to care through the mutual recognition of one state-based license that is enforced locally and recognized nationally.

John Phelan at Econlib writes:

Currently 34 states are members of the compact. The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated very clearly the benefits the NLC offers of being able to tap a larger workforce. Indeed, at the height of the pandemic in April 2020, Governor Walz signed an Executive Order allowing healthcare workers licensed in other states to work in Minnesota, effectively entering the state into the NLC.

Guess who’s against this idea? Minnesota nurses.

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Friday Links

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Yglesias: At least think about letting the market work for kidneys, plasma, voluntary vaccine experimentation and even surrogate motherhood.

One fourth of Medicare hospital patients experienced an adverse event in 2018.

HHS has eliminated all public contact information for its staff.

An estimated $350 million in undisclosed royalties were paid to the National Institutes of Health and hundreds of its scientists, including Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci. 

Demand for travel nurses plunges.

If Roe goes, is IVF next?

$148 billion in K-12 Covid relief remains unspent.

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Bait and Switch on Medicare Drug Price Controls

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New Gingrich the WSJ:

All told, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the Democrats’ (reconciliation) bill would have diverted $266 billion in Medicare spending to pay for other programs if passed into law. Taking a quarter of a trillion dollars out of an already-stressed Medicare program would be a disaster for seniors….

reforms championed by the Trump administration … would have required negotiated savings between PBMs and drugmakers to pass directly to seniors by accounting for the rebate when determining the cost-sharing amount. Currently, patients often end up paying costs based on the sticker price of medications rather than the price that has been negotiated between the manufacturers and PBMs.

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Abortion Made Easy

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All you need is a few pills and a laptop.

the majority of abortions in the U.S. are now done through the use of abortion pills.  It is a two step process, and the two medications must be prescribed by a physician. Until last December, women were required to see a physician in person, but the FDA permanently lifted those requirements, following a temporary waiver during the pandemic. The pills are considered both highly effective and safe.  There are startups, like Hey Jane and Just the Pill, that specialize in them.

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