This is the Kader Daily Podcast for Saturday, November 9th, 2019.

I'm Cable Brown.

Philip Truesdale transports people from home to doctor's appointments and back.

Commonwealth of Kentucky has a problem with Truesdale trying to help its residents.

They say he needs a certificate of need.

Larry Salzman of the Pacific Legal Foundation has taken up Truesdale's case.

We spoke last week in Colorado Springs.

We filed a federal lawsuit in Kentucky on behalf of Philip Truesdale and his company,

Legacy Medical Transport, to challenge

Certificate of Need laws, what we call a competitor's veto.

So what does he do?

Philip bought an ambulance used, he was trying to create a family business business and he saw there was a need for

non-emergency medical transport. Now what is that what is that need? The need is that

you're not having to end up paying for a trip to a hospital or an insurance company doesn't want to pay for a full-on

ambulance to come to your house to take you to a routine medical appointment?

Yeah, part of it is the need of cost savings. Part of it is simply people have special

needs when they get to the hospital. Maybe you could take a cab or an Uber, but if you have dialysis

and you're hooked up to an IV, if you are having surgery where your muscles are impaired you need to lay down on a

stretcher he has a van with a stretcher and he can attend to you and it's just

more service than you would get from an Uber and a lot less service than you need from a full-blown ambulance.

So everyone already knows what you're about to say with respect to this guy who's

innovated in a way and found a niche in a market and trying to save people money.

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