IMHO the problem usually isn't the degree history, it's putting providers in situations where they lack the requisite training, or are understaffed in general.

IMHO the problem usually isn't the degree history, it's putting providers in situations where they lack the requisite training, or are understaffed in general. So you have, e.g., complaints about incompetent PAs being put into roles they are not as good at, but when you look at the details, they are being asked to do these things right out of school without background training, and there are insufficient staff period. But then the blame is put on the use of PAs, rather than the lack of supervision in a type of intervention or procedure before doing them, and insufficient staffing. The problem to me usually is e.g., private equity firms not requiring the right experience for the job, not the degree itself. It's a bit weird and disingenuous to me — if you took a bunch of MDs right out of medical school with no residency training and asked them to function as a senior staff physician in a given specialty, there would be complaints about them as well. It's no different from hiring an inexperienced computer science BA graduate to handle a complex high-stakes network security position.