{
  "id": 672527,
  "title": "New Cato report excoriates certificate of need laws",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/new-cato-report-excoriates-certificate-of-need-laws",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-12T13:57:44.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Healthcare Dive",
    "slug": "healthcare-dive",
    "url": "https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/cato-certificate-of-need-con-law-takedown-analysis-healthcare/827575/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The libertarian think tank analyzed almost 130 studies digging into the controversial laws, which require providers to get state approval before building facilities or adding new services. What it found wasn’t good.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}