"In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, there is a fully outfitted outpatient surgical center that could be used to treat patients with eye problems and improve their vision.
It sits empty, unused, a monument to government-imposed, artificial restrictions on the supply of medical care.
The prohibition has nothing to do with Dr. Lee Birchansky, who owns the surgical center and the doctor's office next door.
He's allowed to operate on patients at nearby hospitals, but he can't do those same surgeries in the facility that he owns.
That's because, for more than a decade, he's been prevented from obtaining a so-called Certificate of Need license from the state for his surgical center—but, under state law, no such license is necessary for facilities located within hospitals.
It's perhaps easy to see why hospitals like this arrangement..."
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