From Carolina Journal Radio Program No. 692: North Carolina’s certificate-of-need law was designed to help control health care costs by giving state government oversight of new medical facilities and large-scale equipment. The reality has been far different from the original projections. Chris Koopman, research fellow with the Project for the Study of American Capitalism at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, spells out key problems associated with CON laws nationwide. He also compares North Carolina’s CON restrictions to others across the country.