Small News/Politics Graphic Medical licensure laws drive up health care costs, restrict choices
From Natural Healthline

Health policy analyst Sue Blevens argues that medical licensure laws restrict competition from non-physician health providers and drive up health care costs. In a policy analysis published by the Cato Institute, Blevens says eliminating the roadblocks to competition among health care providers could improve access to health services, lower health costs, and reduce government spending.

http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-246.html

Blevens, a graduate of Harvard University's School of Public Health, recently founded the Institute for Health Freedom to promote scholarly research and publishing.

Institute for Health Freedom
1155 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Suite 508
Washington, DC 20036

202.429.6610 - Phone
202.861.1973 - Fax

Law Professor Michael H. Cohen has published a similar article in the Arizona Law Review (Vol. 38, No. 1, Spring 1996) titled "Holistic Health Care: Including Alternative and Complementary Medicine in Insurance and Regulatory Schemes." Cohen's 80-page article argues that current scope of practice and disciplinary schemes unduly inhibit the integration of alternative and complementary medicine into modern health care.

Copies of the article can be requested from Professor Cohen at

Chapman University School of Law
1240 South State College
Anaheim, CA 92806

714.517.0300 - Phone
714.517.0320 - Fax


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