Abolish Iowa's Broken Certificate of Need Law

 

 

 

The certificate-of-need requirement was originally based on state law. New York passed the first certificate-of-need law in 1964, the Metcalf- McCloskey Act. From that time to the passage of Section 1122 of the Social Security Act in 1972, another 18 states passed certificate-of-need legislation. Section 1122 was enacted because many states resisted any form of regulation dealing with health facilities and services.^

^Herbert Harvey Hyman, Health Planning: A Systematic Approach (1982), p. 253.