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Singleton, DHHS pitch CON arguments to three-judge panel

A New Bern eye surgeon and the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services offered contrasting arguments about the state’s certificate-of-need law in court filings Wednesday. A challenge to the CON law heads before a three-judge trial court panel on Nov. 18.

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Opinion

Repeal Certificate of Need so patients have better access to health care 

Patients deserve better access to both life-saving and life-preserving health-care treatments. Which means physicians, hospitals, and other health care facilities should be able to invest in their communities to address unmet patient demand for critical services such as kidney dialysis units, cost-effective surgery, neonatal intensive care units, nursing homes, and much, much, more. Unfortunately, providers in North Carolina and...

Katherine Restrepo