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Is a Federal Medical License Constitutional?

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Although three in four doctors support scrapping state medical boards in favor of a single federal license, such sweeping reform is likely far off. Lindsey Goehring refrains from arguing all licenses fall within the purview of the federal domain, but maintains that telemedicine would qualify as interstate commerce.

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Three Reactions to Braidwood v. Becerra

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Becerra is mostly read as a religious freedom case that pits the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) against the promotion of public health goals, similar to what we saw in the last few years of legal challenges to COVID-19 mitigation measures. Yet, ever since the U.S.