All the commercials running on Television advocating getting the new Swine Flu vaccine which will be administered by Nurse Practitioners appears to be a subtle yet insidious move by the Health Department , to get us used to the idea of being treated by these Nurse Practitioners.
The nurse practitioner will be a cheap alternate to the , medical school trained M D .
An R N with an extra 6 months of training will be an inexpensive replacement for doctors.
The plan will make it easy for existing nurses to up grade their license to practitioner nurse. This is destined to become the standard for supplying medical treatment to the Universal Healthcare version of socialized medicine.
Fast, quick, cheap, inferior replacement for the formerly respected profession of medical doctor.
This is one way they are going to accommodate 40 million new patients on government created health care insurance.
The care might be more generic, and the quality will certainly suffer, but the cost savings will certainly be worth the potential down grading of the U S medical system.
It will work, as long as the politicians and their loved ones are not stuck in the same inferior circle of health care.