This podcast examines the proposed NBCE/FCLB merger as a defining moment for chiropractic regulation, testing, and professional freedom. It frames the merger as more than administrative consolidation, arguing that NBCE’s financial pressures, FCLB’s dependence on NBCE funding, overlapping board roles, executive compensation, and student-funded expenses reveal a compromised regulatory structure. The discussion highlights concerns over conflicts of interest, ultra vires delegate authority, antitrust exposure, Part IV centralization, and the lack of independent oversight. At stake, the podcast argues, is whether state boards will protect public accountability or permanently entrench a private testing monopoly.
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