CRNA vs. MDA SALARY

negative. i think CRNA salaries will stay around the same as they are now.

CRNAs are educated and trained to give anesthesia. Sometimes we are "assisted" by the anesthesiologist . No way on the PN "assistant", you will need to do the RN & BSN or other Bach degree and go to anesthesia school.

When this happened at the Univ of Kentucky several years ago during a shortage of residents, and when UK hired locum CRNAs making more than the attending physicians, half the physicians were gone within a few years. Eventually the chairman was ousted, the CRNAs were fired, and the MDs prevailed.
It is likely increasing competition financially between MDs and CRNAs in the opt out states will eventually lead to more and more locked out departments where CRNAs will never be hired under any circumstance. Of course podunk hospitals 200 miles from the nearest Walmart will never have this situation, so it may be well worth investing in a good fly fishing rig in the opt out states.

Again - this shows the difference in lobbying power of the AMA versus the ANA!

The ANA doesn't lobby for CRNA's. We have our own lobbying group that has been very good to CRNA's for a long time. And I don't think the goal of our association or CRNA's is to become "equals" to MDA's. We have a lot of the same skills and training but that doesn't make us equal. They have their job and we have ours and a lot of it overlaps. If you want to be the Doc go to med school, if you want to give anesthesia go to NA school.