Date: July 19, 1979
Subject: Health "Planning" Agencies
Description: Preyer (D-NC) amendment to the Satterfield (D-VA) amendment, to require state health planning agencies to receive comment on and publish their criteria for reviewing certificate-of-need applications for approval of medical service changes and to prohibit any conditional approvals that do not conform to the published review criteria. The Satterfield measure is a step in the right direction toward clamping down on the "health planning" bureaucracy, which adds to health care costs while often impeding the delivery of modern health care through excessive regualtion. The Preyer amendment would have limited the power of the Satterfield amendment in controlling these bureaucracies.
Result: Amendment Rejected, 203-211
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