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Re:Does Employment-Based Insurance Make US Medical Care Unfa... by noelsusman on Monday May 13, 2019 @03:25PM (#19902964)
Experienced nurses already prescribe drugs for people. Walk into a random retail clinic and you will most likely be seeing a nurse, not a doctor. My PCP is not an MD. She has the legal authority to prescribe me any drug she wants, including highly controlled substances.
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Re:Does Employment-Based Insurance Make US Medical Care Unfa... by throwayEngineer on Monday May 13, 2019 @03:31PM (#19903037)
It's not experience, it's a different government license.

Nurse practitioners are a 6 figure/yr job.

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Re:Does Employment-Based Insurance Make US Medical Care Unfa... by noelsusman on Monday May 13, 2019 @03:50PM (#19903220)
A license that takes half the time to acquire and provides half the salary of a doctor.
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