Comments on: Robust Health Regulators Making Government Work for Everyone http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2008/05/01/robust-health-regulators-making-government-work-for-everyone/ Affecting NC public policy through informed, energetic and progressive conversations. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:14:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Hadley Callaway http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2008/05/01/robust-health-regulators-making-government-work-for-everyone/#comment-8797 Hadley Callaway Sun, 04 May 2008 13:34:11 +0000 http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/?p=1066#comment-8797 The DHSR regulators may have concern for the citizens, but the State Health Coordinating Council does not. Otherwise, they would consider the number of facilities per capita in each county when they decide where new Certificates of Need will be issued. There is no place in the State Medical Facilities Plan where the number of facilities per capita is even listed! You wonder why there are two North Carolinas? Because there is very little healthcare in rural areas. Healthcare is a major economic engine. Also, businesses cannot locate where their employees will not have healthcare. There are no facilities, the SHCC says, because there are no doctors to drive usage. This is a chicken and egg phenomenon. It has to start somewhere. There should be an effort to locate new medical facilities in areas where the population is underserved. Also, I would refer you to an interesting report by Georgia Watch (http://www.georgiawatch.org/documents/NorthsideWhitePaper_000.pdf). The DHSR regulators may have concern for the citizens, but the State Health Coordinating Council does not. Otherwise, they would consider the number of facilities per capita in each county when they decide where new Certificates of Need will be issued. There is no place in the State Medical Facilities Plan where the number of facilities per capita is even listed!

You wonder why there are two North Carolinas? Because there is very little healthcare in rural areas. Healthcare is a major economic engine. Also, businesses cannot locate where their employees will not have healthcare.

There are no facilities, the SHCC says, because there are no doctors to drive usage. This is a chicken and egg phenomenon. It has to start somewhere. There should be an effort to locate new medical facilities in areas where the population is underserved.

Also, I would refer you to an interesting report by Georgia Watch (http://www.georgiawatch.org/documents/NorthsideWhitePaper_000.pdf).

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