Comments on: Nixing Certificate of Need laws http://politics.moonagewebdream.com/2006/09/22/nixing-certificate-of-need-laws/ Think Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:57:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Gidget Muse http://politics.moonagewebdream.com/2006/09/22/nixing-certificate-of-need-laws/comment-page-1/#comment-1233 Gidget Muse Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:33:20 +0000 http://politics.moonagewebdream.com/2006/09/22/nixing-certificate-of-need-laws/#comment-1233 If the Health Care field was a free market then this would work but it is most defintily not. Medicare and Medicaid decide what hospitals are allowed to receive in charges from these patients. What kind of free market is required to give services with out pay? You are wrong. Florida does have a CON law. It works quite well. See a certificate of need law makes sure that not-for-profits and community hospitals keep the money making services. With out CON money making services go to the speciality hospitals and the community hospitals are stuck with caring for the indigent and providing services that lose money. I am suprised that someone would support taking away CON in Kentucky where there is such a big indigent population. The fall out would be catrostrophic. Who would provide care for those who can't pay? The speciality hospitals? I think not! If the Health Care field was a free market then this would work but it is most defintily not. Medicare and Medicaid decide what hospitals are allowed to receive in charges from these patients. What kind of free market is required to give services with out pay?

You are wrong. Florida does have a CON law. It works quite well. See a certificate of need law makes sure that not-for-profits and community hospitals keep the money making services. With out CON money making services go to the speciality hospitals and the community hospitals are stuck with caring for the indigent and providing services that lose money. I am suprised that someone would support taking away CON in Kentucky where there is such a big indigent population. The fall out would be catrostrophic. Who would provide care for those who can’t pay? The speciality hospitals? I think not!

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