Encouraging Healthcare Competition and Lower Costs: Antiquated State CON Laws Must Go

Jaimie Cavanaugh, Legal Policy Counsel at the Pacific Legal Foundation, discusses what states can do to create more competition and drive down the rising cost of healthcare, how Certificate of Need (CON) laws impede access to care and block competition while limiting consumer choice and stifling innovation, and what state legislators can and should do to reform and repeal these antiquated laws.