About two years ago we had a new surgery center proposed in our area. Right now there is one, owned and operated by the local hospital. They nixed the idea tha

About two years ago we had a new surgery center proposed in our area. Right now there is one, owned and operated by the local hospital. They nixed the idea that a local clinic could run a surgery center, and threw up every road block they could in the process. Their argument was that the increased competition from the other surgery center would drive prices up. The local county and city board tasked with deciding whether or not to allow it listened to them for two years. Two years of this nonsense. The board gets mostly replaced by new members because of this issue and the new surgery center gets approved. . . and the prices at the existing surgery center drop to half of their previous levels overnight. WTF