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ccess to healthcare remains elusive in many parts of the United States. While legal and policy interventions over the past decade have attempted to increase access to care, most of these attempts have targeted the demand side of healthcare markets. By expanding Medicaid, establishing exchanges, and implementing coverage mandates, policy interventions have made it easier for many to afford healthcare and thereby increase demand for it. However, without an adequate supply of healthcare providers, increased demand for care will do little to improve access.
The increased use of nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants/associates (PAs) to provide healthcare represents an important supply-side policy option to expand access to care. These providers deliver much of the care traditionally reserved to physicians and care for a wide range of patients. However, restrictive scope-ofpractice laws limit their ability to deliver care by limiting the services they can provide and mandating physician supervision of their practices. This article examines the effect of relaxing these scope-of-practice laws on healthcare amenable deaths, which are deaths that could be avoided with timely access to healthcare. Analyzing these deaths in the United States between 2005 and 2019, McMichael finds that relaxing NP scope-of-practice laws reduces healthcare amenable deaths by 12 per 100,000 individuals and that relaxing PA scope-of-practice laws reduces these deaths by 10 per 100,000, with larger reductions in rural areas. A back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that relaxing NP and PA scope-of-practice laws across the country could save more than 40,000 lives per year. Daiquiri Steele cont'd. Precarity of Work Part I: Anti-Racist Strategies for Social Change and Retaliation Deterrence Incentives, Global Meeting on Law and Society (2022). Retaliation Deterrence Incentives, Fifteenth Annual Lutie A. Lytle Black Women Law Faculty Writing Workshop, Boston University School of Law (2022). Media Commentary What I Wish I’d Learned in Law School, ABA Journal (2023). Selected Honors 40 Under 40 Award, National Bar Association (2022).
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