{"id":2150,"date":"2012-02-13T10:52:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T15:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=2150"},"modified":"2017-12-14T17:14:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T22:14:23","slug":"repeal-obamacare-hb-1617","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2012\/02\/13\/repeal-obamacare-hb-1617\/","title":{"rendered":"Repeal Obamacare (HB 1617)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1985, New Hampshire adopted socialized medicine by creating a \u201cCertificate of Need Board,\u201d which has since had the job to unilaterally determine whether a new hospital or other medical facility creates \u201cunnecessary duplication,\u201d \u201creduces increases in the cost of delivering services\u201d and \u201cpromotes rational allocation of health care resources in the state.\u201d This law brazenly declared that the state has \u201ca compelling interest\u201d to \u201cset standards relative to the size, type, level, quality and affordability of health services offered in New Hampshire\u201d and in \u201cmanaging the increases in health care costs.\u201d Very little could be more counterintuitive or unAmerican than this short-sighted, centralized planning mindset, which literally destroyed free market medical care in New Hampshire and ironically ensured increases in costs while decreasing consumer choices. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gencourt.state.nh.us\/legislation\/2012\/HB1617.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HB 1617<\/a> repeals <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gencourt.state.nh.us\/rsa\/html\/XI\/151-C\/151-C-mrg.htm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chapter 151-C<\/a>, the certificate of need board law, and starts to unravel the grievous errors of so-called \u201cprogressive\u201d ideology in New Hampshire that have led to the decline of quality medical care and natural cost controls in the state.<\/p>\n<p>TAKE ACTION:  <\/p>\n<p>Please attend the hearing for HB 1617 on Tuesday at 10 AM in the Legislative Office Building Rooms 210-211, or contact the <a href=\"mailto:HHSEA@leg.state.nh.us\">Health and Human Services Committee<\/a> and ask members to support HB 1617.<br \/>\nE-mail <a href=\"mailto:HouseRepublicans@leg.state.nh.us\">HouseRepublicans@leg.state.nh.us<\/a> and ask them to support this bill.<br \/>\nE-mail <a href=\"mailto:Senators@leg.state.nh.us\">Senators@leg.state.nh.us<\/a> and tell them to support this bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1985, New Hampshire adopted socialized medicine by creating a \u201cCertificate of Need Board,\u201d which has since had the job to unilaterally determine whether a new hospital or other medical facility creates \u201cunnecessary duplication,\u201d \u201creduces increases in the cost of delivering services\u201d and \u201cpromotes rational allocation of health care resources in the state.\u201d This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2150"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6304,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions\/6304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}