
How Certificate of Need Obstructs Birthing Centers
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Is There a Need for a Birthing Center?
"We would have strongly preferred when states and by extension, the bureaucrats in charge of making that decision decide whether or not a birthing center is needed," he says. "I say, no, no,No, just go to the hospital." In some places like Iowa, you have to prove that you're needed because you can just go to a hospital,. But then there's other states like Georgia, where in the example of one woman entrepreneur who was trying to start a birth center she couldn't get permission from three hospitals.
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