If this becomes the trend, then let's take it to its logical consequences. Every business is subject to having its employees amounts set by bureaucrats. Not enough cashiers in the checkout lines at the supermarket? Write your congressman!
Want more flight attendants on the planes? Write your senator.
Want faster service at Kinko's? Write the Governor!
Government can't even run government right. Now we want them to run hospitals, even the private ones.
Yes, I know the problems nurses face, which is why they are quitting. The free market tends to take care of those things, such as hospitals without nurses CLOSE.
This is nothing but another Gray Davis government power grab, and an attempt to buy the Nurses Union vote.
Aside from the fact Gray Davis is Governor instead of Ronald Reagan, would you really want a state in which anyone could practice medicine without a license ?
I think the State has a bona fide interest in regulating medical care as long as there is due process.
Should they make a mistake and overregulate the industry, what's the worst that could happen ?
It's not like they could lose their electrical power ...