Back in 1985, New Hampshire adopted socialized medicine by creating a “Certificate of Need Board,” which has since had the job to unilaterally determine whether a new hospital or other medical facility creates “unnecessary duplication,” “reduces increases in the cost of delivering services” and “promotes rational allocation of health care resources in the state.” This law brazenly declared that the state has “a compelling interest” to “set standards relative to the size, type, level, quality and affordability of health services offered in New Hampshire” and in “managing the increases in health care costs.” Very little could be more counterintuitive or unAmerican than this short-sighted, centralized planning mindset, which literally destroyed free market medical care in New Hampshire and ironically ensured increases in costs while decreasing consumer choices. HB 1617 repeals Chapter 151-C, the certificate of need board law, and starts to unravel the grievous errors of so-called “progressive” ideology in New Hampshire that have led to the decline of quality medical care and natural cost controls in the state.
TAKE ACTION:
Please attend the hearing for HB 1617 on Tuesday at 10 AM in the Legislative Office Building Rooms 210-211, or contact the Health and Human Services Committee and ask members to support HB 1617.
E-mail HouseRepublicans@leg.state.nh.us and ask them to support this bill.
E-mail Senators@leg.state.nh.us and tell them to support this bill.