Practicing Medicine without a License — The New Intrusions by Congress

摘要: Something new is happening in Washington: Congress practicing medicine. In recent months, overwhelmingly passed legislation forcing health plans to pay for 48-hour hospital stays women delivering babies, a resolution promoting mammography their forties, and bill outlawing abortions by intact dilation extraction (“partial-birth abortions”). On February 4, just weeks after National Cancer Institute (NCI) Advisory Panel found the value of forties equivocal, Senator Arlen Specter Pennsylvania (an attorney), declared that “even though evidence may be doubt minds some scientists, . . .