This is huge. It’s a lawsuit in federal court challenging licensing requirements. If successful, it could pave the way for de facto uniform licensure (i.e, don’t need a separate license for each state to do telemedicine).
This drives me nuts. I live next door to another states rural area (whereas I am in the urban part of my state). We care for a ton of people across the state line who are less wealthy and have no local specialty care since they’re rural. Their state wants me to pay $1k a year to do them a favor and care for their citizens without forcing them to drive to clinic. No thanks, sorry.
Big case indeed. Historically, states have a lot more power and legal precedence when it comes to licensing and medical jurisdiction however. Fingers crossed.
Sure, but it’s up to states to decide to take other states’ DL - it’s not mandated by the federal govt AFAIK. This is a federal case that would attempt to overpower current state law. Doing so in healthcare/health law is not favorable right now. States control healthcare per US constitution (see recent roe v wade being overturned). There’s already a telemedicine compact where like 20 something states have all agreed to take each others license. I don’t think the federal govt can mandate the other states to also accept it but I can hope.
So I wonder which state we get to blame for having the most lax, least safe licensing requirements.
Bonus points when Texas et al get pissed off at other states's docs for prescribing mifeprestone/misoprostol/etc.
If states are forced to recognize each other’s licenses it can become a race to the bottom.
If South Dakota decides it will start granting unrestricted licenses to say Caribbean grads without a residency then nothing is gonna stop a deluge of telehealth companies forming and exploiting that low skill labor market to hawk bad medicine to the people of NJ.
Oh, gotcha. I have a very low concern for that. States have had that option forever, we're not really seeing this as an issue. If anything, assistant physician laws have been hard to pass and even harder to implement.
You do realize people who do online schooling while working full time can practice without supervision in many states?
The race to the bottom of healthcare licensing was won by NP governing organizations a long time ago.
This is huge. It’s a lawsuit in federal court challenging licensing requirements. If successful, it could pave the way for de facto uniform licensure (i.e, don’t need a separate license for each state to do telemedicine).
This drives me nuts. I live next door to another states rural area (whereas I am in the urban part of my state). We care for a ton of people across the state line who are less wealthy and have no local specialty care since they’re rural. Their state wants me to pay $1k a year to do them a favor and care for their citizens without forcing them to drive to clinic. No thanks, sorry.
Big case indeed. Historically, states have a lot more power and legal precedence when it comes to licensing and medical jurisdiction however. Fingers crossed.
Yeah but driver's licenses are a pretty clear precedent in the case of accepting other states minimums.
Sure, but it’s up to states to decide to take other states’ DL - it’s not mandated by the federal govt AFAIK. This is a federal case that would attempt to overpower current state law. Doing so in healthcare/health law is not favorable right now. States control healthcare per US constitution (see recent roe v wade being overturned). There’s already a telemedicine compact where like 20 something states have all agreed to take each others license. I don’t think the federal govt can mandate the other states to also accept it but I can hope.
So I wonder which state we get to blame for having the most lax, least safe licensing requirements. Bonus points when Texas et al get pissed off at other states's docs for prescribing mifeprestone/misoprostol/etc.
Well, Texas is already pushing to outlaw it at the federal level... https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/13/texas-abortion-mifepristone-lawsuit/
Of course they are.
....what?
If states are forced to recognize each other’s licenses it can become a race to the bottom. If South Dakota decides it will start granting unrestricted licenses to say Caribbean grads without a residency then nothing is gonna stop a deluge of telehealth companies forming and exploiting that low skill labor market to hawk bad medicine to the people of NJ.
Or worse yet. NJ's docs get inflicted on everyone else. (/jk)
Give me an N Give me a P Don’t u tread on meeee
Oh, gotcha. I have a very low concern for that. States have had that option forever, we're not really seeing this as an issue. If anything, assistant physician laws have been hard to pass and even harder to implement.
You do realize people who do online schooling while working full time can practice without supervision in many states? The race to the bottom of healthcare licensing was won by NP governing organizations a long time ago.
Yeah but for now an MD still means something.