> Imagine to open a restaurant you would need to go to some board and argue how your restaurant is needed in this neighborhood, or the idea that opening a resta

> Imagine to open a restaurant you would need to go to some board and argue how your restaurant is needed in this neighborhood, or the idea that opening a restaurant would INCREASE restaurant prices by offering duplicative services. Madness! And the board goes to the other restaurants and asks them, "hey, if this new restaurant opened, would you reduce your business?" > Certificate of need (CON) laws are state regulatory mechanisms for approving major capital expenditures and projects for certain health care facilities ... and any time someone likes to defend them, I like to point out that CoNs were an invention of hospital owner lobby groups, and that those hospital owners pushed for them.