Health Care

Eric Boehm | 9.19.2024 7:00 AM

Dr. Jay Singleton remembers the moment when he realized that Certificate of Need laws were serious business.

"He stood up and stared at me and hit his hands on the table," Singleton recalls. "And he said, 'well, we're going to fight you on this.'"

As we explained in last week's episode of Why We Can't Have Nice Things, Singleton has been trying to open a new cataract surgical center in New Bern, North Carolina. He'd met with the CEO of the local hospital as a friendly gesture. What he got was the promise of a protracted legal fight.

Earlier this year, Singleton's case made it to........

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