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In a lot of places, you need to ask permission before you're even allowed to build a hospital. I think that fact, and the process attached to it, helps keep the
by microcolonel 7y ago
In a lot of places, you need to ask permission before you're even allowed to build a hospital. I think that fact, and the process attached to it, helps keep the supply low.
- robchachacha 7y agoYup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_need https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_need
- hakka-nyu-su 7y agoThat map shows California (which OP's article is about) as one of the states where CONs are not needed
- closeparen 7y agoHospital complexes are large, distinctive, and attract a lot of traffic. Check your city’s zoning map - existing hospitals are probably in a zoning category of their own, and they’s unlikely to be any spare hospital-zoned land. At minimum it would take a big land use fight, before even getting into medical and public health regulation.