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Empowerment of Advanced Practice Nurses: Regulation Reform Needed to Increase Access to Care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Antoinette DeBois Inglis  and
Diane K. Kjervik
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As the millennium approaches, the United States is on the verge of major health care reform. While swallowing scarce national resources, our health care system produces unenviable results and major inconsistencies. In 1992, $838.5 billion were spent on health care, biting more than 14 percent out of our gross national product. From 35 to 37 million Americans, or approximately 14 percent of the populationn, are uninsured. Our health care system is inherently inconsistent: We have the highest birthweight-specific survival rate of any country in the world, yet we rank 19th worldwide in infant mortality rate, i.e., state-of-the-art medical technology allows us to save a 500-gram infant, yet the mother of that infant may not have had access to basic, minimal prenatal care.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , Summer 1993 , pp. 193 - 205
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 1993

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