Court Opinion

ID: 9563949
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 18:51:01.384644+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:18:09.377875
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BLACKBURN, Presiding Judge,
concurring specially.
For all of the reasons stated in my dissent in Hosp. Auth. of Gwinnett County v. State Health Planning Agency, 211 Ga. App. 407 (438 SE2d 912) (1993), I cannot agree with all that is included in the majority opinion. Our founding fathers never intended that the government limit new businesses to those it felt were economically necessary. It is clear that the purported justification for such control, reduction of the cost of medicine, has not been accomplished by this socialist approach. Indeed, the current economic conditions in this country and the fall -of the USSR clearly demonstrate that centralized government control of markets does not work and is inconsistent with a capitalist economy. Unfortunately, the majority opinion does accurately reflect the law our legislature has authorized, so I concur in the judgment only.