re: Why can every other first world country have healthcare for all?

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CRNAs pretend to be equivalent/better than anesthesiologists, DNPs pretend to be better than/equivalent to internists/family physicians/pediatricians.

NPs now subspecialize. They wear white coats. They lobby (successfully!) for increased prescriptive/diagnostic/therapeutic and political power.

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This, in a nutshell, is what caused me to lose faith in government.
You have a board of medicine? Good. Let them decide how medicine works.
So you get a "nursing" board to define the "scope" of nursing as whatever they damn well please and lobby the hell out of the legislature to get an unchecked power, which they then go and grant to anyone who gets an online degree which proudly shares copies of tests and plagiarised papers on their Facebook groups.

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It is over. Within 2 or 3 generations there will be no recognizable system inclusive of MDs unless we are talking only of massive tertiary/quarternary care academic university hospitals.

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I think they (nursing association and boards) screwed up and let the pendulum swing a bit too far to one side with resulting backlash coming in the future. It would not totally surprise me if you are right. But it also wouldn't surprise me to see either a political or social trend back towards MD/DO in the next generation as far, far too many NPs around here don't know their arse from a hole in the ground when they graduate which will lead to quantifiably worse care over the coming years.


But it's a mess and it's only going to get worse.