Assuming you are 100% correct and the AAs are being developed only so MDAs can make money,,,,, SO WHAT?
Anesthesia is coming to a crisis of not having enough providers.
The MDAs are not graduating enough for future needs. The CRNAs are not graduating enough for future needs. If AAs help to fill the need and the MDAs make a bunch of money off of it, SO WHAT?
You keep harping on the money yet you have not once come up with any alternative solution to the problem. I have given you facts as to what the AANA and the CRNAs are doing to "solve" the problem and even with their best efforts, they are still graduating 1000 less CRNAs per year than is needed. If the AANA and the CRNAs can not provide enough anesthesia providers, then to condemn some other group for trying to make up the short fall is just stupid.
SO WHAT if the MDAs make a bunch of money off of AAs? If the AAs are what it takes to prevent an anesthesia crisis in the near future, then LET THEM COME!!....
You are showing truely unprofessional views. You are more concerned about money than the health care problem. I bet you went into anesthesia for the money and now that you see some risk to your income, you are willing to do anything to protect it, and American health care be damned.
I bet if the suddenly the AANA and the CRNAs were to graduate 10,000 new CRNAs a year and the salary of each went DOWN 50% you would b###h about that also.
Try to be a professional and look at the big picture instead of your own pocket book.