The headline alone could infer this is sarcasm or satire. I thought liberals love regulations. Why would they support de-regulation of medical procedures? I’m a conservative but I still believe that some medical regulations are necessary. Just imagine if you are facing a life or death ailment and an unlicensed doctor is going to operate on you. I understand that UN funded hospitals and medical clinics around the globe hire unlicensed doctors. In case you’re curious I have written about how the UN implements ObamaCare:
http://www.unpost.org/un-medical-services/
It’s already here. Many production line type clinics allow (require?) patients to see PAs (physician’s assistants) instead of actual physicians for routine matters.
How about ISO 18,000 standards for medical practitioners? There could be say 5 or 6 grades of practitioners from hospital staffers through brain or cardiac surgeons.
The staffers would be ISO rates 18001.3 the surgeons would be 18952.1 or some such. By seeing their color coded ID badge and ISO rating number a patient would be able to judge his care expected level from the scrub clad person.
Then the barcoded badges with RF chips would provide data to card readers such that time with patients could be recorded and automatically billed. A caregiver that inadvertently came in to the room of a patient that was not within his or her specialty would not be billed.
I think we have the technology, it’s just matter of implementation
Medical societies comprised of (surprise) doctors have done a pretty good if not perfect job of keeping things on the up and up.
Injecting politicians into that, many of whom haven’t had any further experience with medicine than taking aspirins and putting on band-aids, is asking for tragedy.