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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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.”
