Pennsylvania's health care system 'always lagging behind'

(The Center Square) — Pennsylvania’s health system may get a deregulatory boost if nurse practitioners get their way, but it’s only one step toward lowering costs and making care more widely available.

Testifiers at a joint House hearing on Thursday warned that access to care in the commonwealth is stuck in the "dark ages" and beyond a one-fix solution.

But nurse practitioners expect some improvement in the near future as they lobby for full practice authority. Such a change would allow them to treat patients without the oversight of a physician, which...