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Other states don't miss their hospital planners.(Opinion)(Health Facilities Planning Board.)(Brief Article)
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Crain's Chicago Business
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July 12, 2004
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Gov. Rod Blagojevich did the right thing in suspending the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board. But, instead of cleaning up the scandal-ridden agency that controls the hospital market in Illinois, he should kill it.
A creature of a federal rule rescinded 20 years ago, the planning board now serves few purposes, none of them good. It doles out monopolies in the hospital business through its power to approve or reject any hospital construction project in Illinois.
It centrally plans the allocation of hospital services in Illinois, a business that could use a dose of free-market efficiency. And, as recent news reports suggest, it serves as a fertile source of ...
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