First, we could not assume that RNs or AHPs were as familiar as Canadian regulated providers with concepts like best practice, research and scientific knowledge.
There are also proposals in the Legislature to let the government regulate provider payments as a temporary solution, and some experts think regulation may be the most effective way to tame costs in the long run.
All-payer rate regulation is a key such tool, in which governments work with payers and providers to regulate provider prices, thus limiting the ability of providers to exploit market power.
Regulating providers won't improve the Internet experience for anyone.
The FCC's rules also regulate providers of cellular data in similar ways — a move that the wireless industry argues is illegal.
And so, from Obama's perspective, passing a health care plan this fall isn't primarily a question of whether to include an "individual mandate" requiring every American to have insurance or how fully to regulate providers or even how to hit back against "Harry and Louise"–type attack ads, although his aides spend time contemplating all of those things.
This would allow the FCC to regulate providers using authority granted it under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934.
"Prior to restructuring of the US electric industry in the late 1990s, investor-owned utilities were regulated monopoly providers," says Chuck A Goldman, head of the Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Department at Lawrence Berkeley National.
And, in some parts of the country, I found a cottage industry of court-authorized but poorly regulated therapy providers subjecting kids and teens to widely debunked interventions or controversial invasive technologies.
By a 2-1 vote led by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, the agency proposed to roll back a 2015 decision that regulated Internet providers more heavily, using some of the same rules the agency applies to phone companies.
