The Center for Modern Health is an organization focused on healthcare innovation, patient-centered care, medical policy, and modern approaches to healthcare delivery and wellness initiatives.
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2026-04-21
Dr. Colleen Smith Discusses Healthcare Reform and Regulationwith Colleen Smith, MD
In the latest episode of the Health Policy Podcast, Dr. Colleen Smith, an emergency medicine physician and visiting fellow at the Center for Modern Health, discusses healthcare reform and regulation. She addresses the proposed "Breakup Big Medicine Act" by Senators Elizabeth Warren and Josh Hawley, which aims to tackle the increasing vertical integration in healthcare. Dr. Smith advocates for deregulation and increased competition, suggesting reforms such as repealing certificate of need laws and promoting health savings accounts to empower consumers and healthcare providers.
2026-01-28
Jared Rhoads on the Intersection of Healthcare and Free Market Principleswith Jared Rhoads
In 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.”
“I'm frustrated with it, both as a patient and as a doctor.”
“I think that it should be a non-partisan issue, and I think everyone in this country is frustrated with the way that healthcare is.”