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2003 Florida Health Care Summitt
On January 9-10, 2003, members of the Florida House of Representatives and the Florida Senate attended a Summitt held in the Capitol to provide research-based information and policy analysis tools for their use in addresssing a range of important health care issues. The meeting brought together prominent health services researchers from around the country to present their research findings and discuss options. They discussed topics such as health care spending; health insurance market regulation; Medicaid; the State Children's Health Insurance Program; medical liability insurance and malpractice concerns; healthcare worker shortages, especially nurses; and lastly but most important for the PA profession was a discussion on licensing of health care professionals and perspectives regarding scope of practice issues. The last session of the day was addressing "Turf Wars" and the presenter was Barbara Safriet, J.D., Associate Dean at Yale University School of Law. A synopsis of her talk is that organized medicine is unfairly holding back non-physician providers from doing what they are trained to do and it is limiting access to health care for Americans. I have uploaded her section of the syllabus to our website.
You can view the entire syllabus for the summitt online at Online Sunshine and click on the the link on their homepage to 2003 Florida Health Care Summit. Here is a link. I would encourage all of you to read this.
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