Chiles v. Salazar · ¶152

Medical licensing began as early as 1639, before this country was founded. R. Horowitz, In the Public Interest: Medical Licensing and the Disciplinary Process 39 (2013). Many States deregulated in the mid-1800s by abolishing their licensing schemes. Id., at 40. But regulation through licensing was not abandoned for long: By the turn of the 20th century, 12 States had adopted licensing laws. D. Johnson & H. Chaudhry, Medical Licensing and Discipline in America: A History of the Federation of State Medical Boards 23 (2012). We held that such laws were a permissible exercise of a State's traditional police powers, declaring that “[t]he power of the state to provide for the general welfare of its people authorizes it to prescribe all such regulations as, in its judgment, will secure or tend to secure them against the consequences of ignorance and incapacity as well as of deception and…

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