Do you know how much nurse practitioners make? It's a lot.
Whenever you have a 'lower educated' replacement at 'lower cost' to perform a particular function, bracket creep takes hold and the 'lower cost' professional winds up being a lot more expensive anyway. You wind up with less qualified people that cost more, but it probably DOES increase the population of providers of one kind or another.
Whenever you have a 'lower educated' replacement at 'lower cost' to perform a particular function, bracket creep takes hold and the 'lower cost' professional winds up being a lot more expensive anyway. You wind up with less qualified people that cost more, but it probably DOES increase the population of providers of one kind or another.