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provided—helps other businesses grow through their own purchasing and through the purchasing of their employees. Each dollar in direct output applied to physician services supports $1.85 in economic ac Ɵ vity in Louisiana. Physician-driven economic ac Ɵ vity is greater than legal services, home health care, higher educa Ɵ on, and nursing home and residen Ɵ al care. Physicians are responsible for 119,515 jobs, $8.9B in wages and bene fi ts, $647M in state and local taxes paid, and total economic ac Ɵ vity of $19.9B to the State of Louisiana annually. We should not allow corpora Ɵ ons to u Ɵ lize non-compete clauses to place pro fi t before pa Ɵ ent care or hinder economic liberty; thus we strongly support the proposed rule to ban non-compete clauses. We encourage each of you to submit personal comments in support of the rule. If you would like assistance in dra Ō ing or reviewing your comments please contact Lauren Bailey, Vice President of Legal A ff airs, at lbailey@lsms.org.
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freedom of choice and access to their chosen physician. We concur with the 2005 opinion of the Tennessee Supreme Court sta Ɵ ng “Public policy considera Ɵ ons such as the right to freedom of choice in physicians, the right to con Ɵ nue an on-going rela Ɵ onship with a physician, and the bene fi ts derived from having an increased number of physicians prac Ɵ cing in any given community all outweigh the business interests of an employer.” Beyond their role in safeguarding the health of our communi Ɵ es, physicians in Louisiana are a major driver of the state economy, spurring economic growth and crea Ɵ ng jobs across all industries. Through the crea Ɵ on of jobs with strong wages and bene fi ts paid to workers across the state, physicians empower a high -quality, sustainable workforce that generates state and local tax revenue for community investments. Physicians’ economic output—the value of the goods and services
To submit comments, click the “comment box” in the center of the page here h Ʃ ps://www.regula Ɵ ons.gov/docket/FTC-2023-0007/document The proposed rule can be found here h Ʃ ps://www. Ō c.gov/system/ fi les/ Ō c_gov/pdf/p201000noncompetenprm.pdf The fact sheet is available at h Ʃ ps://www. Ō c.gov/system/ fi les/ Ō c_gov/pdf/ noncompete_nprm_fact_sheet.pdf.
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