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100 Iowa L. Rev. 1943 (2014-2015)
Licensing Health Care Professionals, State Action and Antitrust Policy

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Licensing Health Care Professionals, State

             Action and Antitrust Policy

                 Roger D. Blair & Christine Piette Durrance


   I. INTRODUCTION      ........................................................................... 1944

   II. POLITICAL ECONOMY OF OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING ................ 1945

   III.  BOYCOTTS: THEORY      .................................................................... 1949
      A.  ECONOMIC THEORYOFBOYCOT ......................................... 1949
      B .  SUMM ARY ............................................................................. 1951

  IV. EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE ON THE EFFECTS OF OCCUPATIONAL
      LICENSING IN HEALTH PROFESSIONS .......................................... 1952
      A.   GENERAL FINDINGS IN OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING .................. 1952
      B.  PHYSICIANS, NURSES, AND NURSE PRACTITIONERS .................. 1954
      C.  D ENTISTS .............................................................................. 1956
      D .  M IDW IVES  ............................................................................. 1958
      E.   RADIOLOGIC TECHNICIANS .................................................... 1959
      F.   MASSAGE THERAPY ............................................................... 1959
      G .  SUM M A RY  ............................................................................. 196o

   V. THE STATE ACTION DOCTRINE ...............................................196o
      A.   CLEAR STATE PURPOSE .......................................................... 1963
      B.   ACTIVE STATE SUPERvisioN ................................................... 1964

  V I. C ONCLUSION    .............................................................................. 1967







    *  Department of Economics, University of Florida and Department of Public Policy,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, respectively. Without implicating them in what
follows, we thank Keith Hylton, Rebecca Haw Allensworth, James Fishkin, and Andrew Gavil for
their comments on our paper, which was presented at the University of Iowa, Iowa Law Review
Centennial Symposium Honoring Herbert Hovenkamp. We also thank our respective institutions
for financial support.


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