..."This report has been prepared in compliance with an order adopted by the General Court which directed the Legislative Research Council to study (a) the experience with the Health Care Facilities Act of 1972 and (b) the feasibility of unifying hospitals now administered and financed separately by the state, counties and municipalities into a single state public health hospital system. The first five chapters of this document treat the development of Certificate of Need Laws as well as the controversy attendant with the administration of the programs in Massachusetts and other states. [paragraph] The remaining two chapters discuss the financing of municipal, county and state hospitals, and document the observations of officials of those hospitals and other public health administrators on the issue of consolidation."; a copy of this item was in the BRA collection...