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The evidence is clear that CON laws are barriers to accessible, affordable, and high-quality care. By restricting competition and limiting investment in new supply, these restrictions make it harder for providers to respond to patient needs. States seeking to expand access and lower costs should move away from burdensome and obsolete CON programs and toward an open and competitive health care system.
If the goal is more access, lower costs, higher quality, and a more competitive health care system, the solution is clear: roll back CON laws and stop letting state planners block investment in care. Tennessee’s Senate has taken a meaningful step in that direction. The House should follow through.
The Comprehensive Congressional Budget Act will help members of Congress become more effective legislators. Some will specialize in coalition building, some in policy development, and others in communications. All will have more ways to develop their strengths.
If the goal is more access and lower costs, the solution is straightforward: repeal CON laws and stop treating the provision of health care like a privilege that must be rationed.
On January 28, a federal district court struck down Mississippi’s long-standing moratorium on the establishment of certain new health care facilities, calling the forty-year application of the moratorium “irrational.”
What share of federal health subsidies are “discretionary” spending and therefore part of the annual appropriations bills? 10.8 percent.
Americans for Prosperity is committed to making health care affordable, less complex, and more transparent. Patients deserve greater choice and control when it comes to their health care.
This week’s conversation is a golden opportunity for our elected representatives to identify real solutions that make health much more affordable for working families.
This week, the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on a Democratic bill that would massively expand Obamacare. They claim it’s vital to making health care more affordable. But the opposite is true.
