Opinion: Third try at dialysis clinic meddling is just as bad as the first two attempts
California voters will be blinking and experiencing a sense of déjà vu when they see Proposition 29 on their fall ballots, a third attempt by a powerful labor union to meddle in the operation of dialysis clinics.
Those attempts failed as badly on their second tries as on their first attempts. There’s no reason to believe fiddling around with dialysis clinics will fare better. All clinics operate under the supervision of doctors, who make rounds at varying intervals. At most times, a registered nurse is in charge; patients also can be visited regularly by their own kidney specialists, known as nephrologists.
But Proposition 29’s effects could be directly harmful to California as a whole, a state with such a shortage of doctors and nurse practitioners that new medical schools have recently opened in several locations, two in the growing Inland Empire area around Riverside and San Bernardino.