Thursday, December 6, 2007

Free the Nurse Practitioner 

Filed As:  Health Care

In comparison to other states, Texas nurse practitioners are among the most highly regulated in the country. Given the need for lower cost alternatives in heatlh care, it is essential that policymakers look for opportunities to ease regulations on nurse practitioners in order to offer more choices and affordable options for patients. For more on the subject, see Comparing State Regulation of Nurse Practitioners (PDF), recently published by the Texas Public Policy Foundation.

• posted by Mary Katherine Stout
• 9:56 am
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