Competition
*In the 2007 session, the Kentucky Legislature introduced a bill to “strip consumers of protections against unjustifiable rate increases” and that this removal will provide “benefits of monopoly pricing while effectively freeing (utilities) from regulatory oversight and enables the utilities to shift all their risk onto consumers”. 
-- Lexington Herald Leader Op-Ed Feb 22, 2006
*There is not a “Public Service Commission” for hospitals.  Currently, the CON grants the benefits of monopoly pricing without effective public protections.