Thursday, March 6, 2008

Certificate of Need Reform in Kentucky

Categories: Certificates of Need (CON), Kentucky

The Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions notes a promising development in Kentucky: legislation to roll back the commonwealth's certificate of need law.

David Adams says that the rollback is only a "narrow" one, but adds that even a small reform is good. "If," he says, "we can see the wisdom in allowing the market to dictate the supply of medical services and discard -- if only in very limited cases -- the dumb idea that restricting growth of services keeps prices low, we may be on the road to repealing the entire nonsensical Certificate of Need program.