Outpatient PCPs, what does your staff/MA do?

So having completed 1 year as an outpatient pcp I've been wondering how other clinics operate. Our MAs are required to:

1. vitals
2. run through current chief complaint, social, surgical, family, medical history, medications for all patients for all visits–most of this is just a waste of time since I do it anyways for new/annuals. It's an institutional policy, apparently.
3. prior-auths
4. strep swabs but not influenza
5. discharge the patient and answer questions
6. dress wounds although rare, breathing treatments.
7. normal labs only, which most of the time I've already sent a mychart message.

We have a centralized nurse triage (don't even get me started with this nonsense) that does patient calls (unless routed to office), discusses abnormal labs unless i choose to call the patient, and medication refills which are often just copy/paste requests from the pharmacy.

Am I missing something or expecting too much? What CAN the medical assistant do within their license?