Yeah! I don’t want a surgeon who’s wasted YEARS in supervised (and unpleasant/difficult to be sure) conditions. Let them pass the test and pick up a scalpel!
A better reform would be “do away with occupational licensing entirely for many non-critical professions. For those with high risk, replace it with liability/insurance and reputation mechanisms (which will end up looking like accreditation, or they will be unable to get insurance, but there’s at least a chance at diversity of types of accreditation)”.
Strong upvote. And it’s reversable too! Hairdressers are the motte of reducing regulatory hurdles, the huge spectrum of trivial to important is the bailey.
Plumbers are a good example of the middle ground—someone untrained and unfamiliar with code can do a lot of damage, and will be long gone before it’s discovered. Requiring a bond is just delegating the regulation to a bonding company.
Arguably, the effect of all those years should in some way be measurable. Otherwise it’s irrational to state that those years of indentured servitude made them better.
It might be difficult to test for, just saying in theory if you can’t measure it how do you know it’s real.
Yeah! I don’t want a surgeon who’s wasted YEARS in supervised (and unpleasant/difficult to be sure) conditions. Let them pass the test and pick up a scalpel!
A better reform would be “do away with occupational licensing entirely for many non-critical professions. For those with high risk, replace it with liability/insurance and reputation mechanisms (which will end up looking like accreditation, or they will be unable to get insurance, but there’s at least a chance at diversity of types of accreditation)”.
Surgeons are the motte of occupational licensing; hairdressers are the bailey.
Strong upvote. And it’s reversable too! Hairdressers are the motte of reducing regulatory hurdles, the huge spectrum of trivial to important is the bailey.
Plumbers are a good example of the middle ground—someone untrained and unfamiliar with code can do a lot of damage, and will be long gone before it’s discovered. Requiring a bond is just delegating the regulation to a bonding company.
Arguably, the effect of all those years should in some way be measurable. Otherwise it’s irrational to state that those years of indentured servitude made them better.
It might be difficult to test for, just saying in theory if you can’t measure it how do you know it’s real.
In Germany we don’t have any problems with allowing people to operate after passing tests as I described.