COPN Reform stalls; Rent-seekers win, for now
The State Senate put COPN reform in a deep freeze this year.
Senate Health Committee to take up COPN reform today – UPDATED AND BUMPED
Will the Senate Committee advance reform? Or stifle it in favor of the rent-seeking defenders of the status quo?
Delegates pass COPN reform bills
Two bills on COPN reform are headed to the Senate, but their prospects look rather different.
COPN reform passes House Committee, Rent-Seekers’ Panic Ensues
No sooner had the House Health, Welfare, and Institutions Committee passed the COPN reform bills than incumbent health care providers went all Chicken-Little over the prospect of more competition.
Times-Dispatch Editors Call for COPN Reform
The editors of the Richmond Times-Dispatch show more wisdom than their Hampton Roads counterparts.
COPN reform bills approved by House Health Subcommittee
Republican Delegates vote for all three bills, and Chris Peace’s bill gets an “aye” from the lone Democrat on the subcommittee.
Bills to scale back COPN restrictions in Health Care Subcommittee
The subcommittee chairman is a cosponsor of many of the bills – a good sign that COPN reform may actually get somewhere in 2016.
Scared of Health Care Rationing From Washington? It’s already happening in Richmond.
Under Certificate of Public Need laws in Virginia, Richmond already has more control over health care provisions in Virginia than any conservative would dream of giving to the federal government. It’s time that changed.
Virginian-Pilot starts off 2016 by botching the COPN issue
When you think restricting health care supply is “managing the costs of health care facilities and services,” you are part of the problem – yes, I mean you, VP editorial board.
Virginia House Republicans propose COPN reform
While the Democrats insist on their failed, demand-driven obsessions, Richmond Republicans are stepping up to increase access to health care by reducing the market restriction known as “Certificate of Public Need”.