Thank you for mentioning something I was not sure we as potential nurse practitioners are expected to understand or have an opinion on, which is pay. I understand equal pay for equal work. But, like you I would not consider the training I receive as a nurse practitioner to be the same as that of a doctor. To begin with we are not able to perform surgeries even if we were to obtain certification in specialty areas such as wounds or cardiac medicine.
I agree with you again that every provider in primary care will probably be affected by the United States’ increasing population currently over 324,970,411 (Worldometers, 2016)!
Thank you for the reference to govtrack.us I have added to my favorites list and will refer to it for nurse practitioner