Jared Rhoads, MPH, MS. Jared Rhoads is the Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Modern Health. His writings on health policy have appeared in a wide range of publications. He received his MPH degree from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, and an MS degree from Bentley University. He also teaches health policy in the graduate public health program at Dartmouth, and advises graduate students on their independent research projects. Jared has published research with a variety of think tanks, including the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, the Center for Ethics in Society at St. Anselm University, and the Foundation for Government Accountability. Prior to teaching, he worked in healthcare consulting in a role that handled policy and emerging practices. Email: jared.rhoads@centerformodernhealth.org.
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Appearances (2)
2026-09-16
Breaking the Hospital Monopoly: Why Competition is Illegal in HealthcareIn the latest episode of the Health Policy Podcast, host Bryan Hyde interviews Jared Rhoads, Director of the Center for Modern Health, about the impact of competition in healthcare. Rhoads discusses the distortions in hospital pricing, the role of certificate of need laws, and the concept of cross-subsidization within hospitals. He argues that these factors hinder market efficiency and transparency, ultimately affecting healthcare costs and access.
2026-01-28
Jared Rhoads on the Intersection of Healthcare and Free Market PrinciplesIn the latest episode of the Health Policy Podcast, host Brian Hyde interviews Jared Rhoads, executive director of the Center for Modern Health. Rhoads discusses the complexities of integrating free market principles into healthcare, highlighting the challenges of health savings accounts and the bureaucratic burdens that drive up costs. He emphasizes the need for a cultural shift in how healthcare is perceived and delivered in the United States.
Notable quotes
“Nobody spends money as carefully as you spend your own money.”
“There's been a few premises and ideas out there that have kind of thwarted real free market kind of efforts and reforms along the way.”
“Not everything ought to be paid for by insurance.”
“The cost of everything tends to go up when you make it covered by insurance.”
“It's really interesting to step back and then you can see other solutions and different ways of approaching it.”
“We need to integrate the high-level philosophy with the actual implementation of some of these ideas.”
“There's an overreliance on third-party payment, which we're sort of shunted into that idea.”
“Certain departments end up kind of cross-subsidizing other departments in many hospitals.”
“The certificate of need is this idea that states who were trying to take a handle on overall spending passed these laws saying essentially, if you want to open up a new surgical center, you need to go to the state and ask for special permission.”
“The states will often say, well, you know, come to think of it, we're not expert enough in this area to even know whether to allow it or not.”
“It would at least be more honest if the prices that were high in the ED were allowed to rise so that we knew where it was actually going.”
“If we make that connection explicit and stop allowing the blocking and the anti-competitive behavior, I think that then hospitals will have to respond a bit.”
