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When Doctors Get Between You and Your Health Care

Panama City, FL
The Florida Panhandle Nurse Practitioner Coalition

By EMILY WASHINGTON
US news and world report


With pressure to find ways to slow the growth of health care costs, many states have granted nurse practitioners more autonomy in providing patient care. However, this type of commonsense reform can run into lobbying from special interests seeking to maintain a monopoly on service delivery, as lawmakers in California are finding out.
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