Many have argued that primary care doctors are given too much responsibility regarding direct patient care.
The argument has been made that nurse practitioners and physician assistants should be utilized more
effectively. What are your thoughts on this?
Physician assistants have long argued that they have the ability to provide as much as 70 percent of the
medical services provided by primary care physicians at a much lower cost. Yet government regulations limit
their ability to work independently of physicians. Explain what would happen to the level of competition in the
physician services market if all the statutes limiting activities of physician assistants were eliminated