In North Carolina, despite outward appearances, there is little freedom. For example, if you want to serve the sick and poor, you must ask permission. If the state denies you that permission, you may not serve and help the sick and poor, no matter your qualifications.

In this case, a hospital wanted to expand and build more beds to serve and help more people. The hospital was fully qualified and had actual real doctors, nurses, and (of course) administrators. They owned some land and wanted to build.

The state said no. The state determined that the hospital did not have a so-called "certificate of need" to build, so they would not be permitted to build. Nothing else mattered. Actual sick people who needed hospitalization? Nope, that doesn't matter to the state.

All that matters to the state of North Carolina is them retaining all power over all people all of the time. That's just incredibly wrong. There is absolutely no logical reason that a private hospital, with private funds, should not be able to build a new building. The state has NO business stopping them.

But they are.

No, this is not freedom in any sense of the word.

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