Should ambulance services be governed by certificate of need requirements?

Local governments have the power to determine whether a business is “needed” in their communities or not, and the COVID-19 pandemic has, according to two writers in a South Florida Sun-Sentinel opinion piece published June 15, stopped an ambulance service provider (Brewster Ambulance Service) from transporting the sick and disabled in handicapped accessible vans or ambulances because Lee County officials saw a “lack of need.”