Testimony to the United States House of Representatives Committee on Education and Workforce, Subcommittee on Workforce Protection
“On Call for America: Strengthening Access Through Locum Tenens Providers“
Chairman Mackenzie, Ranking Member Omar, and members of the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections: Good morning and thank you for having me today. It is an honor to testify before this subcommittee on the physician shortage and on how Congress can protect the important role that locum tenens providers play in addressing that shortage – while ensuring that those physicians retain the independent contractor status that makes locum tenens work possible and attractive in the first place. A locum tenens safe harbor is not a loophole around employment law; it is the legal infrastructure that lets a licensed clinician get to a patient who needs care now.
My name is Jonathan Wolfson. I am a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for the American Worker, where my work focuses on modern labor policy, worker freedom, independent contracting, and self-employment. I am also a Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center, where I focus on healthcare workforce policy reforms at the intersection of healthcare, labor policy, and occupational licensing regulation. During the first Trump administration, I had the honor of serving as the head of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Labor, where I served as the Regulatory Policy Officer, Regulatory Reform Officer,...
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