Dear Legislators,
Few services are more important than medical services yet due to efforts by the politically-active doctors’ lobby to limit supply, Californians have not always been able to get immediate access to such services. Your passage of AB 890 (Wood) in 2020 was a big step towards improving that environment but more must be done. A good review is provided by this excellent article in The Atlantic, which details the “costly, lengthy credentialing system” unique to the United States. With reforms, we can have not only more doctors but also more medical practitioners in aggregate.
California has demonstrated its ability to break cartels when it acts boldly to harness competition (see eg, “Driving the boom is California’s Low-Carbon Fuel Standard“). The country needs more medical practitioners. That can best be accomplished by expanding opportunity and opposing protectionist demands by political cronies.
