Becker's Healthcare February 14, 2025
In a recent column published in Hurricane Breeze Newspaper, state delegate Scot Heckert argued that West Virginia’s certificate-of-need laws are necessary to protect rural healthcare services.
However, in a Feb. 3 opinion piece published by The West Virginia Daily News, Jaimie Cavanaugh, an attorney with Pacific Legal Foundation, argued the opposite.
Here are thee takeaways from Ms. Cavanaugh’s article:
1. Ms. Cavanaugh notes that 40% of the nation’s population presently lives in a state with only one or zero CON laws. She cites one study that found “no evidence that CON repeal is associated with hospital closures in rural areas.”
2. Rural communities were...
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