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I was disappointed that the Virginia Medical Society and other
physician groups spoke against SB 263 NP Access to Care, this year in the Virginia Assembly. While there were a few brave physicians who wrote in favor of the bill, the bill was killed. The Nurse Practitioners and Nurse Midwives were asking to: 1) Regulate themselves under the Board of Nursing with input from a Medical Advisory Board, and 2) Practice without the onerous "written supervisory agreement with a physician" that has prevented many a Nurse Midwife from working and has restrained the ability of Nurse Practitioners to meet the needs of their communities. Both of these are common sense changes to the statute.
Nurse Practitioners and Nurse Midwives are highly educated, certified, licensed, etc for the protection of the public. The safety and high quality of care is well documented. The opposition to SB 263 by physician groups makes me ask: Do physicians really believe in increasing access to care? Do physicians want a free trade in health care only for physicians, or do they truly believe in a Free Trade Economy?
I vote for real Free Trade and let the public make their own
health care choices.
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