Texas suffers from a shortage of primary care providers and overly-restrictive scope of practice laws for nurses. It's time to change both.
Cohen and Waldman: What ‘extortion’ looks like to advanced-practice Rns
The phrase "extortion racket" does not usually bring forth the image of a person in a white coat with a stethoscope. But here in the Lone Star State, health-care extortion is legal and hurts Texans both economically and medically.