A North Carolina Hospital Was Slated To Open in 2025. Mired in Bureaucracy, It’s Still a Dirt Field. - KFF Health News Regulations meant to prevent unfettered health care expansion are withholding needed hospital beds in a rural part of North Carolina. Here, as in communities around the country, some officials and…

The irony is that the very law that calls for the new #hospital — the state’s #CertificateOfMeed, or CON, law — has been used to prevent further construction. #NorthCarolina #AntiCompetitive