What’s in a Name Change? Nada.
I don't know how I missed it when it appeared last month, but I recently stumbled across this blistering full-frontal editorial assault on "the scandal-plagued, corruption-scarred, worse-than-useless Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board" from the Chicago Tribune (via Illinois Policy Institute).
Prairie State lawmakers would do well to pay it some heed as they prepare to, among other cosmetic and woefully inadequate "reform" measures, tinker with the board's titular nomenclature in hopes of ventilating the stench of corruption emanating from the unapologetically market-hostile certificate-of-need enforcement agency.
The Trib rightly suggested that, in fact, radical amputation and prompt disposal of the incurably infected appendage is the more prudent remedy: The Illinois CON resembles some backward bureaucratic relic of a collapsed 20th Century totalitarian workers' paradise, rather than something one might expect to encounter in an ostensibly free society.
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