Columnist: Lawmakers Should Not Select Scope of Practice

Sacramento Bee columnist Dan Walters writes that a state Senate committee's recent approval of a series of bills (SB 491, SB 492, SB 493) that would expand the scope of practice for non-physicians overrides doctors' concerns about the measures and implicitly concludes that physicians "are just trying to protect their turf and their incomes." According to Walters, "we should all be afraid" when lawmakers determine "which medical practitioner can perform which procedure."

• "Dan Walters: California's Health Turf War Should Cause Fear" (Walters, Sacramento Bee, 4/30).