The AANA website is not an accurare place for informtion. The organizations is known to STRETCH the facts to say the least.
Again, only 10% or so of CRNA's work Independently and the vast majority of them do so in rural USA.
Compare that to BIG CITY/SUBURBIA USA where most of us prefer to reside. There, MD only or the ACT model predominates. This is fact. DD's comments are pure rhetoric and based on the hatred of the competition.
As Dave J has noted countless times before there is plenty of room for AA's in the USA. A great job that pays extremely well.