CON Law 911: You Must Get Your Competitor’s Permission to Compete

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Жыл бұрын

Want to start a business? Imagine having to get your competitors’ permission first.
In 35 states, laws block certainties of new businesses from operating unless they get their competitor’s permission. They are called Certificate of Need laws, also called “CON” laws.
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One such law prevents Phillip Truesdell from operating ambulances in Kentucky.
The Pacific Legal Foundation, (pacificlegal.org) has filed a lawsuit on his behalf, with the goal of getting the CON law declared unconstitutional.
His lawyer Anastasia Boden, says we need competition, “because competition has been the driving force of innovation, lower prices and better services.”
I agrees, “competition works! CON laws are a bad deal for both consumers and entrepreneurs. No one should have to ask permission to compete.

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@dr.elvis.h.christ Жыл бұрын

This is just legalized racketeering. Whoever wrote, voted for, or lobbied for those laws should be charged with RICO.

@SSingh-nr8qz Жыл бұрын

I was going to say the same thing. All you need is a company to sue.

@Lumindeas Жыл бұрын

And that's part of the problem as well, lobbyists. Legalized bribery. I've long said (since pre-internet days) lobbying needs to be outlawed at every level. But we just keep going along with the status quo :/

@johnnynick3621 Жыл бұрын

@@Lumindeas It isn't "lobbying" itself that is the problem. Lobbying is merely asking a public servant for support of a particular law or provision. What is damaging is tying lobbying to campaign contributions without disclosing to the public that you voted for something promoted by a contributor. Even more damaging is allowing politicians to have ANY of this power in the first place. There should be NO laws that interfere with one's ability to work or earn a living unless those laws are aimed directly at protecting our Constitutional rights.

@Lumindeas Жыл бұрын

@@johnnynick3621 Except they turned lobbying into a full-time job and legalized bribery. It's one thing to merely ask for support, it's another to do favors, financially or otherwise, to garner that support. I still say it has become bastardized and legal bribery. If one wants support for something, then ask, and leave it at that. Sure, you can have a powerpoint presentation to make your case, but that should be the end of it. The pol can then go over the information provided and make their decision based off that, not what you're promising to do for them if they do give their support. I get your point, it's just that they've twisted it way beyond anything recognizable at this point. Therefore, take their toys away.

@johnnynick3621 Жыл бұрын

@@Lumindeas I agree...but politicians should NOT have the power to create laws that determine who can and cannot go into business.

@calebfielding6352 Жыл бұрын

Con laws. Cant say they are being deseptive about the name.

@ko7305 Жыл бұрын

Warchild, refugee and legal immigrant here. kina virus released to fk up the elections...millions dead, billion+ with heart/organ issues...evil know no bounds, 100% intentionally released...just to get one man out of office, one man they could not buy/control. I have seen what communism will do to stay in or get in power. Anything! Chinese killed 30+ million of their own for power less than a century ago. It was a crazy conspiracy theory that FBI smoked Kennedy and now we know it is true. It was a conspiracy theory that kina virus was manmade but now we know it is true. MSM/Big Tech working overtime to censor/ban. This was intentionally released to fk up US election and for the Chinese to get protesters of Hong Kong streets because if Hong Kong goes so do commies in China. Win-win for commies and US dems....millions dead, billion+ with heart/organ issues. Godless people will always create hell.

@khukri_wielderxxx1962 Жыл бұрын

If Governments are good at anything, it's squashing competition

@saxonsoldier67 Жыл бұрын

Also, government is great at wasting money.

@jryan9547 Жыл бұрын

They are amazing at creating problems and massive debt.

@ko7305 Жыл бұрын

@CORED5150 Жыл бұрын

It's corruption.

@internetexplorer6097 Жыл бұрын

The government, both local and federal, are in need of total overhaul

@Multipotentialitis Жыл бұрын

In need of a coup is more like it

@lloydritchey Жыл бұрын

Overhaul them with dynamite.

@johnpruett5258 Жыл бұрын

In need of abolishing.

@jameswilliams185 Жыл бұрын

It never gets smaller, only larger.

@pablorages1241 Жыл бұрын

... it just needs to have DEMOCRATS removed

@MyTube4Utoo Жыл бұрын

'CON' Laws - imagine that.

@frankromero4048 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, Con-Job is more like it

@semosancus5506 Жыл бұрын

Yep, regulations create high barrier to entry. The current players love it which is why they lobby for all these regulations in the first place.

@chesspwn7457 Жыл бұрын

And then people complain about the high costs when it's the government keeping prices high by stopping new people and making the prices of approval costly

@johngalt97 Жыл бұрын

And 'deregulation' is usually re-regulation meant to favor someone.

@mattolivier1835 Жыл бұрын

And people like you keep supporting the gov't. Why?

@joeyGalileoHotto Жыл бұрын

They want people on government handouts for the rest of their life lol

@YashArya01 Жыл бұрын

@@mattolivier1835 how do you know he supports the government? It's it based on that comment or other comments by that person?

@joesharbach3883 Жыл бұрын

John Stossel should be in every classroom in America.

@systemsbroken Жыл бұрын

His hate speech would never be allowed. You must remember, those who can, do. Those who cant teach (and blame and blame and blame).

@imnotbenavery9220 Жыл бұрын

@@systemsbrokenI prefer the pragmatic approach, the cynicism doom and gloom approach isn’t teaching anyone anything. I get it but use your ideas, what’s your approach? Because just saying it’s broken it’s over etc is pointless, people want solutions, be the change, offer ideas. Your rhetoric is as damaging as the laws that allow this nonsense. Critical thinking is tough but I encourage everyone to give it a shot.

@yt.damian Жыл бұрын

John, Thomas and Jordan. That will sort America out.

@decaprio7421 Жыл бұрын

He literally got paid by the gas and oil company to make up a video with false information that he later took down. I know they pay good but hopefully he learn from his mistakes 🙄 Check out comment section on another video I believe he still has up that's against the wind turbines(today's windmills) and solar power.

@wontonschannel Жыл бұрын

@@yt.damian Maybe if the entirety of America agreed to learn their teachings in good faith. Otherwise, stupid people have too much power via the internet.

@bazzathegreat3517 Жыл бұрын

Only the government would think that limiting competition would lower costs.

@bvegannow1936 Жыл бұрын

If by lower costs u mean, they think banning competition will make them Richer... Lower the costs of trying to compete such as not spend any time or resources improving themselves, and not have competition "cost them $", by having people give their $ to competition instead of them.

@lFunGuyl 9 ай бұрын

They don't think it will lower costs. They think it will allow them to not lower their own costs. In fact, they raise them.

@denisegaylord382 Жыл бұрын

Hence why our forefathers were so adamant about small government, lead by God fearing, freedom loving people. Not people seeking power.

@chrismay2298 Жыл бұрын

All a fairy tale. Folks just keep licking it up though. Worship those freemason luciferians... 😂

@DANLAROCA913 Жыл бұрын

"A jury consists of twelve people, chosen to decide who has the better lawyer." Robert Frost

@fairenough7984 Жыл бұрын

That's exactly right. The "right and "wrong" of a case, or the idea of justice has nothing to do with winning a case. Not even a murder case. It relies on who makes the most compelling argument.

@CD-vb9fi Жыл бұрын

That's because none of you are Fully Informed Jurors. Know how I know? Because of what you just said. Go and learn what a fully informed juror is! It is the most important vote you could ever make!

@stevenscott2136 Жыл бұрын

@@CD-vb9fiBut don't tell anyone that you know, because you'll be kicked off every jury for the rest of your life.

@CD-vb9fi Жыл бұрын

@@stevenscott2136 indeed, but don't lie about it either. They would love to nail you for jury tampering if they found out you lied about anything.

@ko7305 Жыл бұрын

@windrider65 Жыл бұрын

We need a new Congress to compete with our current one. The current one has forgotten their oath of office.

@siral2000 Жыл бұрын

They wouldn't allow the competition.

@tuckerbugeater Жыл бұрын

@@siral2000 Will Christians vote on anything other than wokism or banning freedom?

@dreetz0831 Жыл бұрын

so vote them out of congress

@windrider65 Жыл бұрын

@@dreetz0831 I try, but there are too many people who want someone else, or something else is going on to keep the worthless people in Congress.

@stevebabiak6997 Жыл бұрын

Certificate Of Needless gress

@RVBMichaelJCaboose Жыл бұрын

If you are that afraid of competition phasing you out, you DESERVE to lose everything.

@bvegannow1936 Жыл бұрын

People should improve themselves instead of ban competition. All the time and effort spent banning competition could be spent improving themselves instead! And copying the good things about their competition! And potentially working with the competition to improve everyone lives!

@Telmach Жыл бұрын

I worked for a year in New England at a liquor store. During that year, another liquor store tried to set up shop about a mile down the road. Ironically, it was in the exact same location that the store I worked used to be in about 15 years earlier. The competitor had followed all the laws, gotten all the permits, and paid all the expenses. There happens to be a law in this area that prevents the sale of alcohol outside of a dedicated liquor store and limits the total number of liquor store that may be permitted and allowed to do business per township. The competitor already was permitted to operate in that town, and was just moving to a larger better location. The shop I worked for successfully lobbied the government to prevent the competitor from moving their location. I was disgusted, and told my boss that he may have been legally in the right but he was beyond morally wrong. A few weeks later I was fired under very dubious claims.

@HandsAreBlazingRed Жыл бұрын

Standing for what you believe is always the way to go through life.

@the_real_glabnurb Жыл бұрын

Tbh, if my employee would tell me that he was disgusted with my way of doing business, I too would want to get rid of him.

@Telmach Жыл бұрын

@@the_real_glabnurb That's fair. My complaint towards him was the hypocrisy. He claimed to be conservative and to hate government intervention. Also I was much more candid with my language here, where as with him I merely pressed him on the hypocrisy and noted that the other location wasn't likely to take away business.

@bobl6139 Жыл бұрын

Now discuss liquor distribution laws in MA!

@1realtruthrightnow742 Жыл бұрын

@@Telmach I agree with you, that definitely makes him a hypocritical scumbag. But I would have kept my mouth shut and changed jobs. People like that will never change

@godofplumbing Жыл бұрын

The average cost of an ambulance ride from One hospital to another in New Hampshire it's $7,000. Remember, this is not for an emergency it is just a ride because the hospital you are in doesn't have the proper facilities.

@yengsabio5315 Жыл бұрын

Wow! That expensive, ha!

@msomething3579 Жыл бұрын

Here in NC our local EMS service offers a household subscription service,.. Every year I pay the annual fee, a whopping $60 for a year's unlimited ambulance services. I only found out about it a few years ago after a 911 call for my wife, that ride after insurance cost me $600 which would have covered TEN years of subscription.

@MrDangerous35 Жыл бұрын

Noticed that nh isn't on the states with con laws. Seriously I work at a hospital and they are desperate for more ems or even non emergent transport.

@denisegaylord382 Жыл бұрын

That's completely outrageous. But, I know from others experiences, that the escalation in medical transportation costs is a direct result of the implementation of the ACA. Which in and of itself is a total misnomer to begin with. Its not health care, and nor is it affordable to those of us that have to pay. Those that can ride on the taxpayers dime however, pay nothing. 🤬

@bobl6139 Жыл бұрын

I drove myself to er after hairline ankle fracture bc of this Had another Friend fell down elevator shaft in FL broke ribs and vertebrae did the same,could've been Paralysis

@azuth11 Жыл бұрын

There is no problem that the government cannot make worse. It's almost like the lack of competition results in the definition of incompetence.

@archerbob6847 Жыл бұрын

In the states that have these con laws, the families of all the people who died when help did not arrive in a timely fashion should take these companies and their state government to court in a class action lawsuit for the multiple counts of wrongful deaths.

@JCSAXON Жыл бұрын

Absolutely

@caribbeanbound8357 Жыл бұрын

unfortunately the taxpayer will foot the bill

@YourSavant Жыл бұрын

@@caribbeanbound8357 Maybe the taxpayer will then wizen up and vote in people who will do away with those laws.

@caribbeanbound8357 Жыл бұрын

@@YourSavant exactly. thats the point. we need to smarten up on who we let in office because it is ultimately us who pays for their issues. Unfortunately, not enough people really care and even less people understand that the government only gives out money at our expense. threes no way around it

@johnwilliams758 Жыл бұрын

Thankfully, these laws don't apply to the 911 system, so nobody dies from lack of transport. These laws apply to the non-government ambulances - the non-911 trucks. They're the ones you need when you're being transported from one facility to another. Maybe the hospital you're in doesn't have the equipment you need for a test or treatment. Or maybe you're being transported from a hospital to a rehab facility. And this is where people end up waiting. It doesn't cost lives, it just costs money . . . and time.

@mrwonk Жыл бұрын

In Florida; I learned the local governments were actually limiting the number of hospital beds in East Central Florida in order to keep pricing high. They actually required a hospital to close before allowing a new hospital to open.

@denisegaylord382 Жыл бұрын

I believe that. Leave it to politicians to figure out how to make a profit off the people. One way or another.

@markfreeman4727 Жыл бұрын

that fucking criminal

@pmc2999 Жыл бұрын

Pretty close to the same in my state

@robert5 11 ай бұрын

@@denisegaylord382 It is actually payoffs to local politicians that keep this going. Hay politician why do you make 100k but live in a 2 million home? Why did you just buy a 120k porsche? Why did you just take a eu tour that cost 30k? How are you living the high life while only making 100k? You know the answer.

@armandoacevedo6978 5 ай бұрын

Florida guy here, it’s bad throughout the entire state

@TheMichaelMove Жыл бұрын

Yeah with all the credibility the medical community earned during covid you could fill a thimble.

@ShankarSivarajan Жыл бұрын

Perhaps your thimbles are smaller than I'm imagining. The "medical community" is a pestilence far worse than "covid" but that's not saying much: it's worse than anything short of something like airborne rabies and even then it'd be close.

@shiniquajones2812 Жыл бұрын

😂 that’s awesome and so accurate

@TheMichaelMove Жыл бұрын

@@ShankarSivarajan I share your frustration but imao that kind of blanket hatred is not productive or necessarily accurate. There is no “pure” anything. But they botched covid epically that’s for sure

@stansmith4054 Жыл бұрын

@@TheMichaelMove How do expect us to not hate the government and medical community when during Covid they called us who were wary about the vaccines murderers, extremists, non-American, a burden to society, etc?

@ShankarSivarajan Жыл бұрын

@@TheMichaelMove Yeah, I suppose you're right. I was too harsh. Airborne rabies might turn out to be more beneficial than one might assume _prima facie._

@IAtomicBongI Жыл бұрын

If there are too many EMS agencies then the bad ones will go out of business as people will favor the good ones. It's not a free market if they are controlling who can and cannot enter it.

@dhgmrz17 Жыл бұрын

Even then a bad ems transport would be better than no ems transport at all.

@gustavop5706 Жыл бұрын

Very clear and important message. Here in Brazil we lost so many lives by public service health, expensive and worthless...

@mattolivier1835 Жыл бұрын

Nao faz mal, agora vc tem Lula. Ile vai resolver tudo. RSRSRS!

@alexandredesouza3692 Жыл бұрын

Mano, se vc tiver dinheiro, você pode pegar um outro Plano de saude.

@IL_Bgentyl Жыл бұрын

Should hear how much Hollywood praises it well they go to private doctors. It’s comical.

@alexandredesouza3692 Жыл бұрын

@@IL_Bgentyl My brother in Christ, all American doctors are private doctors.

@CD-vb9fi Жыл бұрын

That is the point of them. People think this is all just incompetence. It is not incompetence, it is straight up corruption! Know the difference!

@bwillan Жыл бұрын

It was exactly the same thing that happened when Uber first started. The taxi industry complained. Eventually the 2 learned how to get along and the consumer benefited from the choice.

@denisegaylord382 Жыл бұрын

In the places that Uber was able to fight and win. They are banned still in many locations.😢 I wished our governments were far smaller. Let the markets and the people figure out what is necessary, and government get out of the way.

@jryan9547 Жыл бұрын

Government seeks to protect crappy things that no one wants.

@jonathanjones3126 Жыл бұрын

The only problem with companies like uber is if they lack the proper commercial level insurance. People moving businesses need to have the right insurance in case of accidents and do proper background checks to ensure people who have committed certain crimes can't get the jobs.

@sebastianlucas704 Жыл бұрын

@@jonathanjones3126 In which case, other companies could copy Uber, but have the proper insurance, at a higher cost. Again, giving more freedom to the consumer.

@jonathanjones3126 Жыл бұрын

@Sebastian Lucas insurance companies I believe are offering such insurance to individuals.

@aecee5687 Жыл бұрын

It’s very scary how accurate atlas shrugged was describing what’s going on today

@theily1724 Жыл бұрын

What’s the point of power if you can’t use it whenever you want?

@kalrandom7387 Жыл бұрын

You know it's going to be a good video when you don't see a commercial

@cannatroll1529 Жыл бұрын

A throttle on anyone starting a business should be illegal. Everybody should be allowed to try their hand at any business they feel they can do well.

@MrCovi2955 Жыл бұрын

In the small town that I live in there's a big theater community (its a college town and the college is a big theater school). The city owns the only non-college theater in town and charges an arm and a leg to use it, and the only other alternative is a TINY theater one town over at the county seat. A few years ago a friend of mine who helps run the Community Theater group (the only acting group in town that actually makes money with their plays, not even the college can claim that here) tried to buy the "Historic Downtown Theater." It once, a long long time ago, was a stage theater, but had been renovated to be a movie theater and for decades was the only movie theater in town. When the big movie theaters had come to town it went out of business, despite multiple people trying to start it back up again over the years as a dollar theater. Well his plan was to make it back into a stage theater to be the intermediate theater between the TINY one and the huge expensive city run one. But because it's on "historic downtown main street" he had to get permits from the city to prove that his business would "add to and not detract from the historic nature." The city has regularly sold historic store fronts to a company that turns them into offices, so they don't really care about the "historic nature" of the street. A third of what should be store fronts are the entrances to offices. But they made him jump through so many hoops to turn a historic theater back into a historic theater that he eventually gave up after several months. A week later it was sold to a cross fit company that tore out all the theater seating and then went out of business 3 months later. Everyone knows the reason they kept the historic theater from being a historic theater is because they didn't want competition.

@stanwolenski9541 Жыл бұрын

Forty some years ago I we owned a trucking business, we were agents for a group of carriers hauling freight in Texas. We wanted to expand and could do so with a particular certificate which allowed us to haul unrestricted freight for any five customers we designated. One of items we were to haul was known as plastic feed stock, another carrier objected. We had to go to a Texas Railroad Commission hearing to present our case. The company that objected was also at the hearing, during the hearing we described what plastic feed stock was and how it was used, hint it is not for human or animal consumption, the company that had been objecting hauled ANIMAL FEED. We were awarded our certificate eight hours and a 360 round trip later.

@callak_9974 Жыл бұрын

So they saw the words 'feed stock' and were upset that you could have been taking business away from them.

@stanwolenski9541 Жыл бұрын

@@callak_9974 that is correct, we had applied for the certificate stating PLASTICS FEED STOCK.

@MrTrailerman2 Жыл бұрын

Considering time is critical in most emergency situations you can never have too many ambulances or first responders and to think that more ambulances creates sloppy shortcuts is just the opposite.

@natehill8069 Жыл бұрын

Not really relevant to this case, he's not a first responder ambulance, he doesnt do emergency calls; he transports patients from one hospital to another. Like Uber but for ambulances.

@RealFauxMolder Жыл бұрын

The reason -- it's a VERY lucrative business. The ambulance that took dad less than 10 miles back home after a visit to the ER in 2019 charged him (insurance refused to pay) almost $15,000. Yeah. And we had to wait for that ride to come, because there weren't any others that Sunday morning at 2am. The hospital made us move out of the triage room in which he'd been getting treatment (after the doctor had done his assessment), into a dark hallway, where we then waited 45 minutes for the ride, with dad in a wheelchair, exhausted, in pain, and miserable. They'd told me I could NOT drive dad home myself, but would have to instead wait until nearly 4am for a ride home in an approved ambulance. Fortunately, a nurse called another service, which came 2h sooner... This is what medical "care" has come to in America.

@shafaa1 Жыл бұрын

Thank you again for showing how effective government solutions are to a marketplace issue.

@pilot88pro Жыл бұрын

I'd like to open a lemonade stand. Karen- "Sorry, my son already operates one."

@irishamerican4558 Жыл бұрын

You'll need a food handlers license & a city permit.

@postandghost3727 Жыл бұрын

I’ve tried to open a dental assisting school in Virginia. The process with SCHEV is ridiculous.

@mikepatton9537 Жыл бұрын

Just amazing! Thanks for posting Mr. Stossel, I admire your work!

@peterquinlan5469 Жыл бұрын

Las vegas did the same with limousine companies. New player had to be "vetted' by a board of the existing companies-exposing their client list, suppliers etc... Then would decline their application. One large national company from CA spent millions challenging the rigged system-they lost. Not sure if this monopoly still exists. I survived 9-11, but the 2008 housing crisis dried up 80% of my business. I folded. The one's that survived that got bounced by covid-19 restrictions.

@gbipit1 Жыл бұрын

No wonder ambulance ride is more than a uber

@thirdplanet4471 Жыл бұрын

This is why I hate some of these laws. Businesses that have already established themselves will be able to pay for things like business licenses and whatever taxes are needed but new startups will have so much trouble jumping through these hoops. It's even worse that laws are hard to change and it seems to become a situation where we have to deal with government and big business become a monopoly.

@IL_Bgentyl Жыл бұрын

True. It the law should simply be you are required to post all accreditation. So hospitals can require and charge more but people getting into the industry or providing low cost service only need a license and proper insurance.

@bvegannow1936 Жыл бұрын

Anti trust

@jerrettbarkley456 Жыл бұрын

Good for that Lawyer for helping out!

@darthgbc363 Жыл бұрын

This is happening in Grand Forks, ND. An existing hospital pushed the city to not let another hospital into town & the city caved.

@systematic101 Жыл бұрын

supply and demand would cause the correct amount of ambulances to be in service and the correct price to be reached.

@denisegaylord382 Жыл бұрын

But you have to have politicians who believe in staying out of the market. There are very few that believe that markets will adjust to the needs and wants of a consumer. Instead they keep their campaign donors happy, and screw the people they are supposed to represent by stifling competition through laws and regulations.

@jayphillips368 Жыл бұрын

Keep fighting the good fight Mr. Stossel!

@mph5896 Жыл бұрын

Michigan has these laws for building hospitals. A hospital was proposed being built in an area it is needed. All the hospitals 30 minutes away protested it since it would potentially take business from their hospital. No new hospital.

@ecashtoenslavement4320 Жыл бұрын

Competition keeps people, government,and business honest and efficient.

@joerockhead7246 Жыл бұрын

interesting. my mom is in a rehab facility. she had a dr's apt scheduled. the transportation team was 1/2 hr late and she missed her appt. It then happened a second time.

@tannerfrost7153 Жыл бұрын

Keep up the good work Stossel!

@idiotburns Жыл бұрын

4:44 so they are transparent about not being honest

@LovingPrinceTamayuki Жыл бұрын

Oof, seeing Philip Truesdale (recognized him immediately) just now, kinda hurt emotionally. I've been thinking about this exact issue for months. And with stuff like that tornado and school shooting weighing on my mind, it just feels so much more needed right now even if they don't transport the people it frees up other people who might be able to potentially do so.

@bartsanders1553 Жыл бұрын

Hey Stossel! I just heard about a guy in CA who dealt with squatters the same way you did: moved in with em. They moved out really quick.😂

@stuckgrenadepin.225 Жыл бұрын

A fellow lehto fan?

@bartsanders1553 Жыл бұрын

@@stuckgrenadepin.225 You're the second one I found today🤣

@stuckgrenadepin.225 Жыл бұрын

@@bartsanders1553 nice!

@gideonthejudge9036 Жыл бұрын

This story, and it's presentation, is why Stossel deserves to still be on Prime Time TV AND youtube.

@Xalta_Sailor Жыл бұрын

But no productive people watch “prime” TV anymore. It’s all leftie propaganda.

@paullee4210 Жыл бұрын

It all sums up to one word: GREED. It’s greed of all aspects. Good guys are always victims of stupid policies of the government by not so good guys.

@stevenscott2136 Жыл бұрын

This is why large societies will always fail (or run terribly). When people get to make decisions that affect other people they have no emotional tie to, they always make them in a way that favors themselves or their own people. We may not LIVE in tribes anymore, but we still THINK in tribes. Every society will eventually collapse back into tribes.

@InteloPL Жыл бұрын

- We COULD invest $200.000 intoore ambulances... - Nah, let's smear any competition.

@stuckgrenadepin.225 Жыл бұрын

That’s not even one more ambulance.

@InteloPL Жыл бұрын

@@stuckgrenadepin.225 could be if you buy a used one. And also - not every situation requires an ambulance. Sometimes a prepared van could do. Get 2 of these and fit them with equipment for 200k.

@stuckgrenadepin.225 Жыл бұрын

@@InteloPL the equipment alone is worth a couple hundred thousand. My wife is an EMT and the town she works in is currently switching over to the ambulance service being run by the fire department instead of private. Three used, to varying degrees, ambulances with equipment cost the city something like $1.4 million. You could get a well used ambulance and do lots of work on it, I will say that, but the equipment is going to be 6 figures by itself, even used.

@InteloPL Жыл бұрын

@@stuckgrenadepin.225 Then maybe companies need to stop looking inside US. I can get you 1 modern one or 2 slightly older for that cash in Europe, I guarnate. But it's good to know US prices, thx.

@stuckgrenadepin.225 Жыл бұрын

@@InteloPL but you aren’t thinking about customs and shipping. Just to ship it you would be adding $20,000, maybe twice that? Maybe even more than that and then it would have to meet all safety specifications. Not all european vehicles can be imported to the US.

@cp1cupcake Жыл бұрын

I used to live in a state which, based on 3:20, has CON laws. I remember going to a hospital one day for two appointments, one for removing a cast on my leg and the other to speak to a neuroptimalogist about the tests I had a few weeks previous. The leg removal happened as soon as I got to the office, even though I was early. It took a decent chunk of time since the guy who originally wrapped such a good job that the guy cutting it complained since he had to do it layer by layer. I was waiting at the eye office for 2 hours after by appointment was scheduled for a minute's consultation.

@DarkHorseSki Жыл бұрын

I remember the Stossel bit about moving companies and CoN laws... at least the acronym accurately describes what these laws are.

@tiredofallthis7716 Жыл бұрын

John, you can never retire. You are one of very few bright spots in media.

@rossmeldrum3346 Жыл бұрын

So much for competition being good for the country and consumers. It's not just business owners who get screwed it's the consumer as well, we don't get good choice and price competition.

@agordon47 Жыл бұрын

i was a victim of Pennsylvania's Certificate of Need law back in the 90's. I cost me considerable money and time to fight the local hospital at the Department of Health "court". The process took well over a year because the "Department of Needs Assessment" only functioned 2 or 3 days per month. I finally was able to get it approved after the law was not renewed about a year later. it was a way for Pennsylvania hospitals to keep specialized surgical centers from competing (even though those hospitals refused modern equipment updates, limited timely access to services, and charged several times more than surgical centers

@johnhanley2431 Жыл бұрын

10 years ago in Seattle, I required surgery. I checked into my hospital and the doctor recommended that I transfer to another hospital about 10 miles away. This was an surgery room availability recommendation and not a financial/health insurance problem. They recommended transportation by ambulance. I asked how much for the ambulance. $1,800.00 and this was a non emergency. I chose to drive myself to the other hospital. By doing that I also had my car with me when I checked back out. These insane charges are one of the reasons for our high health insurance costs.

@JonathanMulderMarston Жыл бұрын

The thing about regulating business and the red tape required to set up a business, is that it's the big boys that promote and benefit from those regulations. They can afford the costs of navigating red tape and it keeps competitors out and monopolies in power.

@bvegannow1936 Жыл бұрын

Anti trust. If they really cared about reducing violent crime, theft, kidnapping..., they should make it easier for people to do productive things instead, by removing the exsessive restrictions on better alternatives to crime

@shaqattac Жыл бұрын

I was an EMT at an IFT company in LA county doing the same sort of transports. The EMS (and healthcare) system is not working right now (at least in LA). There's an insane amount of companies doing the exact same as us and yet there is still not enough providers. There is all kinds of money grabs to be "certified" in different states, cities, and counties. Several of my coworkers/friends weren't able to start working because they had to pay for application fees. Crazy how hard they make it to work on an ambulance.

@garnet6039 Жыл бұрын

This is insane. I worked years ago for a transfer ambulance co in Massachusetts. This is a con. This is a vital service that fills an important role.

@bvegannow1936 Жыл бұрын

Gov members who care more about profit than people and wana ban basic services so they can profit should be fired.

@RJKYEG Жыл бұрын

In my province our overburdened EMTs are often busy doing non-emergency medical transport instead of responding to medical emergencies.

@stevenclayton333 Жыл бұрын

3rd! Keep it up John

@fuminarokonoe5272 Жыл бұрын

Nice Video

@cvr527 Жыл бұрын

Yet another excellent Stossel expose. Thanks you John Stossel for all of the work you do for the common people!

@cahivx Жыл бұрын

Thank you Mr Stossel, I love the comments because there is NEVER a single person trashing you.

@Jamesaepp Жыл бұрын

Wait a minute - KENTUCKY? Where is Senator Rand Paul's libertarianism?

@IAmTheRealBill Жыл бұрын

Where is your knowledge about the difference between state, local, and federal laws and legislators? Rand Paul is a federal level senator who has no say in State congressional topics. As such it is inappropriate in the least to bring him up in this context. Instead you should be asking about the state legislators.

@Jamesaepp Жыл бұрын

@@IAmTheRealBill Quite frankly, not a great level of knowledge. I'm a filthy Canadian and as such have a better time understanding our parliamentary system. Perhaps when I hear of "so and so, senator from state" in american broadcasts it poisons my thinking of the senator's representation of their state as being for that state in a similar way we do here.

@sirguy6678 Жыл бұрын

The difference between capitalism and crony capitalism- government takes care of those who pay the most

@IAmTheRealBill Жыл бұрын

This isn't "crony-capitalism" - that is a meaningless term. This is actual statist and really is something you'd find in a Fascist state. This is the government deciding who can be in a market - regulating who owns services. Because the rules and setup is government, but the actors (the existing players) are really the deciders it is the private corps implementing government regulation; hence the identification of it as a Fascist implementation. Remember: corporations are anti-capitalist, not some "form" of it as they are implementation of government control over industry.

@realShadowKat Жыл бұрын

I'm glad Mr Stossel has brought this up. I know my state has CON laws. There are no hospitals in my county of nearly 150K people. Remember 2020? How the government was complaining there weren't enough hospital beds and ICU units and ER rooms? The shortage was due to the CON laws, and I know hospitals were denied permits to open in the years leading up to 2020. If more hospitals were allowed to open, there would be enough to serve not just my community, but those in the state and possibly across the country.

@mastring1966 Жыл бұрын

LOL. I saw the bit where you included hospitals and imaging companies. from where I sit right now, north of Houston, within 15 minutes of me walking out my front door, 4 major hospitals and 5 hospital complexes with imaging equipment. As I found earlier this month, there's a non emergency urgent care building, directly affiliated with one of those hospitals, with imaging equipment, that if you wind up needing to be admitted, they can do it from that facility. going there cut the wait down to 30 minutes to see a doctor and get looked at in a room, mri and CT scan in under 2 hours, and discharged in under 3. Let the market decide what's necessary.

@markanderson9772 Жыл бұрын

'I' am from the government and 'I' am here to help.

@zacharymarentette5269 Жыл бұрын

I find it quite fitting that these are abbreviated to CON. Like it's just a perfect accidental description.

@ricardocantoral7672 Жыл бұрын

Government: "We're here to help, whether you like it or not."

@timsexton Жыл бұрын

Wow, freedom peeks her beautiful face through the gray storm clouds. Imagine if this concept were applied to government education... *_TRUST !!_*

@davearbogast2882 Жыл бұрын

Michigan also has a "certificate of need" - Part of the reason our nation's first University Owned hospital was only allowed to build a new 1,000 bed replacement for the 1930's hospital. Before the new one opened in 1986, they already exceed capacity. If you look at a photo, you'll notice the 9th floor on the east half has no windows - It does not exist. The east half of the 8th floor has the roof behind a facade. Today, they are building an additional facility, but calling it a "facility" because of the state's certificate of need.... "Pavilion at University of Michigan Health" is the name.

@Rowgue51 Жыл бұрын

Any law or licensing scheme that has the effect of being a barrier to entry for competition in an industry should be eliminated. We have multiple federal acts that were enacted specifically to forbid anti competitive business practices, yet the government itself enacts other laws that not only enable but require such practices.

@mightisright Жыл бұрын

I love that you bring these stories to light.

@b.powell3480 Жыл бұрын

Thanks again, John Stossel for this video!, also to pacific legal foundation for their help as well !

@reaality3860 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Stossel! Keep up the good work!

@mikec5054 Жыл бұрын

I have been in Ambulance business for years, it is a dirty, dirty business. The ambulance must pay the local offical a lot.

@John_II Жыл бұрын

God Bless you, Mr. Stossel. Real journalism means taking a hard look at what works and what does not.

@Kokomadeta Жыл бұрын

John Stossel continues to deliver quality, thought-provoking reports. Thank you, John.

@chefbillybaroo2056 Жыл бұрын

That girl is on the mark, competition breeds innovation!

@codycampbell81 Жыл бұрын

Watched John Stossel on 20/20 growing up, excited to see he is doing producing content.

@Asgard-1 Жыл бұрын

Not just existing operators, but insurance doesn’t like it either

@karenpeterson5780 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for highlighting this injustice!

@jryan9547 Жыл бұрын

He went from one transport to half a dozen in a year…I’d say there’s clearly a need.

@katnew4408 Жыл бұрын

How do you not have five million subscribers!? Some of the best content out here!

@frankm2385 Жыл бұрын

Good for them. Sue those states and protect the public.

@bajadrifter Жыл бұрын

Outstanding, as usual for Stossel!

@joelspaulding5964 Жыл бұрын

This is the same in hospitals. If a hospital wants to add 30 beds for critical care, it has to get approved with a "certificate of need" so as not to compete against other hospitals within a given area.

@karanaman68 Жыл бұрын

Stossel you are a legend. Much respect from Australia 😊

@rpsmith Жыл бұрын

Another Great Video! Thanks, John!

@SirFency Жыл бұрын

someone should bring this to the attention of desantis so we can get rid of these laws in fl

@IAmTheRealBill Жыл бұрын

So do it.

@ponchos3806 Жыл бұрын

Thank you John stossel for all your content.

@markschwarzbauer4555 Жыл бұрын

John, thank you for covering this.

@JEP-Tech Жыл бұрын

This is a huge problem in TN. Getting the CON laws repealed is almost impossible. The acronym says it all. Complete con.

@jackhenderson1239 Жыл бұрын

I went through this back in 1997 in Abilene Texas when rural metro / AMT had the 911 or emergency service contract for that city when I was able to go before the city council and it left no doubt in my mind that a large corporation based outside the state had them in their back pocket as a young ambushes man at that time who had came back to his home town to start a career as a paramedic to serve his community after serving my country in the US Army as a medic. It changed me for ever To day I'm a cofounder of a national and its not medical related or based in abilene texas