PLF calls on 14 governors to suspend laws that inhibit emergency medical response

In 36 states, medical providers must prove that a new service is “needed” before opening new facilities or purchasing medical equipment. These anti-competitive Certificate of Need (CON) requirements are especially harmful during a pandemic, when medical providers must be free to adapt to quickly changing circumstances.

As Anastasia Boden and Mollie Williams write in The Wall Street Journal, however, at least 22 of the 36 states with CON laws have relaxed them in light of the COVID-19 crisis. And this week, PLF called on the remaining 14 states and the District of Columbia to do the same.

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Are the government’s emergency orders constitutional?

With Americans under an unprecedented web of orders to stay inside—with “non-essential” businesses, lives, and livelihoods on hold while staggering costs mount—an increasing number are asking: Are the shutdown orders and other emergency measures constitutional?

Our attorneys answer this and other questions we’ve most often received from PLF supporters.

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Using the Defense Production Act to commandeer medical supplies manufacturing will discourage production

The COVID-19 pandemic is causing shocking shortages of critical medical supplies such as N95 masks and ventilators. In the face of these alarming headlines, many have called on the president to invoke the Defense Production Act to order their production.

Daniel Ortner, however, explains why doing so would be a mistake.

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