Con At It Again.

Con At It Again.

An intriguing tidings item, costs-of-regulations anectodes.

In researching "After the ACA" nearly supply-side restrictions inwards medicine too wellness insurance, I became aware of CON ("certificate of need") laws. Yes, to expand or construct a novel hospital, inwards many states, y'all necessitate terra firma approval, too those proceedings are predictably hijacked politically. For once, they came upwardly amongst an unintentionally appropriate acronym.

I was interested inwards this storey that non only competing hospitals, but also local activists who desire U of C to lose a packet of coin on a trauma middle stopped the expansion.
Protesters who desire trauma middle services at the academy testified at the hearing inwards Bolingbrook too claimed credit for the decision.
Also interesting,
According to the report, the proposed forty somebody intensive assist unit of measurement rooms were likewise large to comply amongst the state’s standards.
Each room was planned to direct maintain a shower too an alcove for nurses to fill upwardly out reports out of persuasion of the patient, making the rooms 36 foursquare feet larger than the maximum the terra firma recommends.
Sounds nice. I didn't know the terra firma of Illinois had a measure for the maximum permissible size of a infirmary room.
The study also says the expansion of surgical beds is non necessary because the academy isn’t using its existing beds.
The terra firma requires the beds must hold upwardly occupied a minimum of 88 per centum of the fourth dimension to encounter efficiency standards too justify an expansion. In 2013, the academy had patients inwards surgical beds 79 per centum of the time,
Let's direct maintain this to a greater extent than generally. No eating seat should hold upwardly allowed to refurbish too pose inwards nicer tables it's at 88 per centum of capacity now.

It sounds similar the U of C wants to become after, every bit ane doc pose it to me once, "Saudi Princes amongst interesting cancers." The model of all hospitals these days is to cross-subsidize assist that doesn't pay for itself amongst patients similar these. Except the golden-egg hunters desire the egg earlier raising the goose.

As usual, the lawsuit is non what should hold upwardly done but who gets to decide. Should the U of C construct bigger nicer infirmary beds? Should it run a trauma center? Good questions -- but why is this anyone but the U of C's business?

Hilariously, this all started every bit a "cost control" measure, forgetting that inwards economics, costs become downwardly when y'all allow render curves movement to the right.
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