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Health Care Landscape Ripe for Certificate-of-Need Law Reform

Health Care Landscape Ripe for Certificate-of-Need Law Reform

Is a fruit farmer operating in a "free market" if he must pay for and obtain special permission from a state bureaucracy before adding a row to his orchard or even a single tree to his grove?Few would describe such a market, or the famer himself, as "free." Nor are patients and providers free to improve the health care landscape in the three dozen states restricting providers from expanding their facilities, services, and equipment.Their loss of freedom translates into riskier health care—lower quality of hospital care, and higher death rates following post-surgery complications—in 35 states and the District of Columbia.


not to mention nytimes

Ailing Obama Health Care Act May Have to Change to Survive

Ailing Obama Health Care Act May Have to Change to Survive

"Too many Americans still strain to pay for their physician visits and prescriptions, cover their deductibles or pay their monthly insurance bills; struggle to navigate a complex, sometimes bewildering system; and remain uninsured," Mr. Obama wrote in The Journal of the American Medical Association.The marketplace faces a major test in the fourth annual open enrollment season, which starts on Nov. 1, a week before Election Day.In many counties, consumers will see higher premiums and fewer insurers, as Aetna, Humana and UnitedHealth have curtailed their participation in the exchanges, and many of the nonprofit insurance cooperatives, created with federal money, have shut down.


by the same token on businesswire

Home Health Care Report 2016-2017: Home Health is an $86 Billion Growth Industry with a Rapidly Expanding Pool of Potential Customers - Research and Markets

Home Health Care Report 2016-2017: Home Health is an $86 Billion Growth Industry with a Rapidly Expanding Pool of Potential Customers - Research and Markets

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Home Health Care 2016-2017" report to their offering.Today, home health is an $86 billion growth industry with a rapidly expanding pool of potential customers.To put it in context, in 2011 the pharmaceutical industry posted $610 billion in revenue-Pfizer, the top pharma company at the time, posted $65 billion in revenue that year.