North Carolina’s Division of Facility Services has a plan. Maybe a five-year plan, no one knows. What is clear is that bureaucrats in Raleigh think they know best:
State health planners have denied requests by Carolinas HealthCare System to build a 50-bed hospital or a free-standing emergency room in Mint Hill, a town of 20,000 in southeast Mecklenburg County.
State health planners. Did you know we had “state health planners”? Better still, did you ever vote for “state health planners”? Me neither.
Here’s what I want from my “state health planners” — nothing. Nada. Null set. Were the Division of Facility Services to be wiped out tomorrow by a meteor, life would go on in North Carolina. Probably better than ever before. Russia seems to be doing OK without Soviet planners, and Russia does not always have the rule of law. OK, neither does North Carolina, but still.
State health planners. What an abomination. Sorry, Mint Hill. No competing health care providers for you — GOSPLAN has spoken.
