Imagine if you wanted to open a new hardware store and you needed a “Certificate of Need” issued by the state or local authority that your hardware store was needed. Needless to say, incumbent hardware stores would already be well armed with strong arguments that your hardware store was not needed. Crazy? Yes. Un-American? Yes. Unfortunately, these Certificates of Need exists in most U.S. states for hospitals or other facilities.
Scholars at the Mercatus Center have published a new ranking of states’ CON laws, finding that sates with Certificate of Need programs are associated with:
- 131 fewer beds per 100,000 persons.
- A reduction by between 1 and 2 hospitals providing MRI services per 500,000 persons.
- A reduction of 37 percent in the number of hospitals offering CT scans.
Read the entire entry at NCPA's
Health Policy Blog.
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