A review of eleven bills, scheduled to be considered by the South Carolina Senate Medical Affairs Committee on September 10 and 11, 2025, raises several questions. The big question that must be addressed is, “Can the people of South Carolina afford to continue to be oblivious to the extent of State control of the health and well-being of every resident of this state?” There are even laws regarding the health and well-being of our pets and other animals in South Carolina.
For a significant period of time (now expired), health and medical care and options in this country were unmatched anywhere in the world. United States citizens enjoyed the highest quality, safety, ethical standards, freedom of choice, and providers with exceptional expertise ever seen. Could increased control of this system by laws enacted in our legislature rebuild, maintain, or build upon this legacy? Is that actually the goal? This writer believes the answers are, “No!” and “No!”
A few concerns and questions:
What might be some of the implications of the detail addressed in LAWS already in place and/or being added or amended?
The State continues to grow the control it has over the people’s freedom of access to care they choose from health care providers of their choice—and at their own risk. Little or no oversight of what the government has been doing to control medical care has been attempted by the people. For our own survival, this cannot continue.
The scope of just this relative handful of mostly short bills is ominous. There will be, if it is not yet the case, no alternative choices for any kind of health care (not to be confused with establishment medical practice today) that will be not defined, specified, overseen, and regulated by the State. Is there a deliberate attempt to ensure this outcome, implemented by passing “little” bills into law?
Is the quality, safety, and ethical foundation of health care being subverted by constantly changing standards and government designed rules for every aspect of medical care that is to be allowed by the State?
Will patients be able to choose for themselves and evaluate providers from whom they seek care—and if so, how? The granting of waivers and other accommodations to fill empty slots with anyone willing to provide “medical” treatment does not bode well for the provision of the quality of care once provided in this country. How can a patient know how capable a provider really is if the State interferes and adjusts qualifications and measures of competency?
Are requirements for legal “medical” practice being watered down, while at the same time creating barriers for alternative health care options? Will the “team approach” allow those with less education and training to perform critical actions, like prescribing medication, or intrusive and dangerous actions, like surgeries, with questionable instruction or care—sometimes without liability? What exactly with actual medical doctors be doing? Who will really be providing and controlling medical or health care?
Is this another area where legislators are very unlikely to know much of anything about the implications and details of the bills they enact into law?
Upon what “science” or “expertise” will legislators base their decisions to pass or reject more detailed law about our medical services and freedom to choose what they are? The State already has a plethora of boards, often with appointed officials, that oversee specific medical providers and activities. Are legislators relying on the AMA, AAP, ADA, medical conglomerates, insurance companies, big corporations, global interests, pharmaceutical companies, lobbyists, government paid “experts” and “scientists,” and government appointed boards to help them know how to vote? God help us.
What sources promoting well-established alternative remedies and knowledge are being consulted and participating in the development of these bills?
Are we being seduced into participating in a global plan to standardize and control the health and well-being of the global population? Sheeple better take a hard look at the direction we are heading. Whether you are part of the people or the sheeple, government control impacts your very existence. and global control only further endangers us all.
Is all this part of a plan that has already created a shortage of doctors? Years ago many doctors and prospective doctors began to recognize the direction medical care was moving and started to opt out or choose not enter a system in which they have no autonomy. Why has this happened?
Who is really going to be interpreting and enforcing these laws and legal details—and changing them—for what purposes—as time goes by?
Will detailed laws regarding all “medical” and “health care” providers eventually limit the varieties and scope of care that will be available?
Will the only people allowed to provide any kind of advice, service, health care, or other related activities having to do with personnel decisions about best practices for each individual be restricted to those listed within the code of laws, with services controlled by details defined and enforced by the state?
These bills, if passed, will not be just regulations. They will be LAW. They will have all the negative and dangerous characteristics of a law, not just the complicated and hidden, but not quite as powerful, characteristics of regulations. The power of law, backed by the police power of the state, the danger implicit in who may be running the state, and the attendant power of those who can enact law, must not be ignored any longer.
Most of these bills are very short (2-20 pages), but a lot of damage can be done in a few words that clarify, multiply, and legalize little details. Given these eleven bills are less than “the tip of the iceberg,” perhaps it is time to start examining the danger under the surface.
ADDENDUM
The eleven bills and primary application(s) taken from each bill’s enacting clause include:
S44 Physician assistants, including expansion of …”functions, locations, and collaboration requirements…,” liability limitations, and authority to prescribe medications.
S45 Board of Nursing powers over scope of authority of “Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Application Requirements….”
S376 “…remove barriers that prevent high-quality internationally licensed physicians…” to practice in this state.
S378 “…acts within the scope of pharmacy practice…”
S669 “Team Based Healthcare Act” to “require APRNs, PAs, and AAs to practice as part of a patient care team….”
S160 “Dietitian Licensure Compact Act”
S453 “…provide guidelines for the practice of teledentistry in this state….”
H3223 “…provide definitions and requirements concerning the use of telehealth for veterinary services….”
H3254 “…the Board of Medical Examiners…may waive certain examination requirements for applicants found to possess the general medical knowledge….”
H3842 “…physical therapists may certify that an individual is handicapped….”
H4342 “…restricted instructors’ licenses issued by the Board of Dentistry so as to remove limitations on certain credentialing requirements.”
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