Health Care
Certificate of Need
Introduction Under North Carolina law, medical services providers must obtain a certificate of need (CON) from the state before they can open new facilities, expand existing facilities, install new or…
American Hospital Association
health care industry trade group
Freedom Focus
Freedom Focus
Expand Freedom, Not Medicaid, for Better, More Affordable Healthcare
After a decade of resistance, North Carolina expanded its Medicaid program this year. It marks the largest entitlement increase in state history. Since government intervention is the major culprit in…
Health Care
Hospitals must disclose prices, judge rules
A federal judge ruled the Department of Health and Human Services’ rule to force hospitals to disclose their negotiated prices with insurers was legal. The rule, introduced last November, was…
Health Care
Do Hospital Consolidations Lower Prices? (Spoiler Alert: No.)
This week, JLF’s Jordan Roberts published a research brief on hospital consolidation. Recently, the American Hospital Association released a study on hospital consolidation. According to Roberts: The new study builds on a report from…
Research Brief
Health Care
Do Hospital Consolidations Lower Prices?
There are several prominent players in the health care delivery process. There are patients, physicians, insurers, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and pharmacy benefit managers, to name a few. Interestingly, when asked…
Health Care
Less regulation, more value
In the past, I have written about a healthcare payment model commonly referred to as “patient-centered” or “value-based” care (see here, here, and here). The idea behind patient-centered care is…
Health Care
The Case Against Telemedicine Parity Laws
Abstract North Carolina is one of 18 states that do not have a telemedicine parity law, which forces insurance companies to pay health care providers for services treated via telemedicine…
Health Care
North Carolina CON Law A Market Failure
Contrary to 40 years‘ worth of evidence, The American Hospital Association says that Certificate of Need (CON) is a necessary and effective law that restrains the rise in health care…
Health Care
Certificate of Need Laws Suppress Competition
View in your browser. If medical providers have plans to build or expand an existing health care facility, offer new services, update or purchase major medical equipment, they will most…
Health Care
Historian Gordon details key causes of the current health care mess
John Steele Gordon shares with Barron’s readers some of the historical background for the current American health care predicament. … [O]nce policies and programs start, they foster constituents who are…
Health Care
Has the Obama administration bungled even an unobjectionable (or less objectionable) piece of ObamaCare?
Tevi Troy suggests the answer is “yes.” He explains why in a Politico column about the so-called Accountable Care Organization. If there was one element of the controversial Obama health…
Liberty
Special interests? Oh, they’re good this year, part II
(Part I.) Imagine, if you will, the reaction from the Left ? elected officials, academics, talking heads, bloggers, etc. ? to a report showing that the Bush White House met…