From Carolina Journal Radio Program No. 748: Telemedicine offers great promise for addressing American health care needs in the future. But Katherine Restrepo, John Locke Foundation director of health care policy, has raised concerns about legislative proposals to create “telemedicine parity.” Restrepo explains what that concept means and why she believes it could prove counterproductive.
N.C. needs no law dictating telemedicine ‘parity’
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