The obvious follow up is indeed ‘why only military’? License portability should be universal.
I assume the short answer is: This is a group that is small enough not to credibly threaten anyone’s wages, sympathetic/virtuous enough that people feel uncomfortable or expect to pay a price for arguing against them, and not actually in control of where they live. If nothing else it opens up surface area for other attack vectors, once people realize with data that those dastardly New Mexican plumbers can also safely fix toilets in Denver.
On music therapists—something like 15-20 states require this, yes. My wife is a therapeutic musician, not a music therapist (trained to play live music for patients in clinical settings, not interactive, not part of an ongoing treatment plan) - not a whole lot of overlap despite the similar names). There was have been times where MTs have tried to get legislation passed to prevent TMs from practicing.
Personally I’m amazed that this hasn’t come under fire over the decades by more litigation under the Interstate Commerce and Full Faith and Credit clauses. Somehow it applies to driver’s licenses and vehicle registrations but not (again in CO because I have the list open) landscape architects and… boxers? Really? Especially for things like telemedicine, where it’s illegal for my therapist to talk to me on the phone or send me a text if I’m not physically in their state. Theoretically if they’re part of a larger practice it’s illegal for their own office to talk to them if they’re traveling. I’m honestly baffled how this would stand up to real legal/constitutional scrutiny. say, I’m traveling in NH, and call my doctor’s office in MA to ask them to refill a prescription at a pharmacy near me, and the office calls my doctor who happens to be at a conference in CT that that to confirm what they should do. On what grounds could NH and CT claim this is accomplishing anything whatsoever? As the patient I can move (most) prescriptions around between pharmacies and states whenever I want, I can see doctors in whatever state I want. As a doctor, you can see patients from whatever state you want as long as they travel to you and not the other way around.
I assume the short answer is: This is a group that is small enough not to credibly threaten anyone’s wages, sympathetic/virtuous enough that people feel uncomfortable or expect to pay a price for arguing against them, and not actually in control of where they live. If nothing else it opens up surface area for other attack vectors, once people realize with data that those dastardly New Mexican plumbers can also safely fix toilets in Denver.
On music therapists—something like 15-20 states require this, yes. My wife is a therapeutic musician, not a music therapist (trained to play live music for patients in clinical settings, not interactive, not part of an ongoing treatment plan) - not a whole lot of overlap despite the similar names). There was have been times where MTs have tried to get legislation passed to prevent TMs from practicing.
Personally I’m amazed that this hasn’t come under fire over the decades by more litigation under the Interstate Commerce and Full Faith and Credit clauses. Somehow it applies to driver’s licenses and vehicle registrations but not (again in CO because I have the list open) landscape architects and… boxers? Really? Especially for things like telemedicine, where it’s illegal for my therapist to talk to me on the phone or send me a text if I’m not physically in their state. Theoretically if they’re part of a larger practice it’s illegal for their own office to talk to them if they’re traveling. I’m honestly baffled how this would stand up to real legal/constitutional scrutiny. say, I’m traveling in NH, and call my doctor’s office in MA to ask them to refill a prescription at a pharmacy near me, and the office calls my doctor who happens to be at a conference in CT that that to confirm what they should do. On what grounds could NH and CT claim this is accomplishing anything whatsoever? As the patient I can move (most) prescriptions around between pharmacies and states whenever I want, I can see doctors in whatever state I want. As a doctor, you can see patients from whatever state you want as long as they travel to you and not the other way around.