Assembly Panel Passes Nurse Practitioner Scope-of-Practice Measure

Assembly Panel Passes Nurse Practitioner Scope-of-Practice Measure
On Tuesday, a California Assembly committee passed a bill (SB 491) that would seek to curb the state's physician shortage by allowing nurse practitioners to operate without physician supervision at certain medical facilities, the Sacramento Bee reports. Read more on California Healthline

Thomas D. Elias
And how about the fact that the federal government at least for the first year of the program will not demand any kind of proof that people actually qualify for subsidies designed to make health insurance affordable to almost everyone. Instead, a kind … Read more on Community Voice

California Prison Early Release Plan Won't Be Delayed, Supreme Court Rules
Covina Police Chief Kim Raney, president of the California Police Chiefs Association, said the justices ignored efforts already underway to reduce prison populations and "chose instead to allow for the release of more felons into already overburdened … Read more on Huffington Post