All Research & Commentary

Red States, Blue States, Purple States, and the 2026 Health Freedom Index
November 2026 • By Jared Rhoads
How The Tax Exclusion on Employer-Based Health Insurance Hurts Behavioral Health
October 2026 • By Patrick N. Dempsey
Paring Down Coverage Mandates To Reduce Health Insurance Premiums
October 2026 • By Jared Rhoads
Assessing the Policy Attitudes of State Legislators Toward Overdose Prevention Centers
September 2026 • By Dinah Sher Gongora and Jared Rhoads
California's Targeting of Private Equity Looks More Like Misplaced Anger Than Good Policy
September 2026 • By Brooke Hannon
Changing What We Ask Of The FDA
September 2026 • By Srijith Rangan
Health Freedom Index: 2026 Edition
August 2026 • By Center for Modern Health & Knee Regulatory Research Center
There's Nothing "Optional" about the New York Health Act's Single-Payer Option
August 2026 • By Colleen Smith
Certificate of Need Laws: Bad for Missouri and Bad For Any State
August 2026 • By Elyse Rogers
One Man's Junk is Another Man's Treasured Health Insurance
August 2026 • By Colleen Smith
Doctors Don't Trust Themselves To Own Hospitals, So Why Should You?
August 2026 • By Reinier Schuur
The Headache of Hospital Pricing
July 2026 • By Jared Rhoads
Mark Cuban Is Not Disruptive Enough on Healthcare
July 2026 • By Colleen Smith and Reinier Schuur
On Our 250th Birthday, What to Make of President Adams’s Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen?
July 2026 • By Jared Rhoads
Why the No Surprises Act Can't Arbitrate Fair Healthcare Prices
June 2026 • By Reinier Schuur and Colleen Smith
Physician-Owned Hospitals: Subsidy-Seekers or Market Disruptors?
June 2026 • By Reinier Schuur and Colleen Smith
Crush Medicaid Fraud By Trusting Americans More, Not Less
May 2026 • By Reinier Schuur and Colleen Smith
Bringing a Drug to Market Versus Approving a Drug for a Program: A Proposal
May 2026 • By Jared Rhoads
Profit-Driven Healthcare Hasn't Failed Patients, But Regulation-Driven Healthcare Has
May 2026 • By Colleen Smith and Reinier Schuur
Break Up Big Coverage, Not Big Medicine
May 2026 • By Reinier Schuur and Colleen Smith
Is English-Language Proficiency Really A Barrier With Foreign-Trained Physicians?
April 2026 • By Jared Rhoads
Addressing Opposition: More on Physician Licensing and Vermont S 142
April 2026 • By Jared Rhoads
Further Testimony: The Recency Requirement in Vermont S 142
April 2026 • By Jared Rhoads
Policy and Pluralism in the Age of Modern Medicine
March 2026 • By Jared Rhoads
Don't Break Up Big Medicine: Instead Level the Playing Field and Change the Game
March 2026 • By Reinier Schuur
Additional Testimony on Vermont S 142 Regarding Foreign-Trained Physicians
February 2026 • By Jared Rhoads
The 'Break Up Big Medicine Act' Treats the Symptoms, Not the Disease
February 2026 • By Colleen Smith
Remarks on Foreign-Trained Physicians: Testimony on Vermont S 142
February 2026 • By Jared Rhoads
Insurance Companies Should Pay Patients When They Make Cost-Effective Choices
February 2026 • By Jared Rhoads
How Not to Sell Free-Market Healthcare Ideas
February 2026 • By Reinier Schuur and Jared Rhoads
The Doctor is In, But She Can't See You
February 2026 • By Colleen Smith
Remarks on Direct-Pay Healthcare: Testimony on New Hampshire HB 1562
January 2026 • By Jared Rhoads
Go Big or Go Home: Trump Freedom Funds Don't Go Big Enough
January 2026 • By Colleen Smith
Shaping Both the Big Debates and the Many Sub-Debates in Health Policy
January 2026 • By Jared Rhoads
Why Healthcare Commentators (and Doctors) are Afraid of the Free-Market
January 2026 • By Colleen Smith and Reinier Schuur
Health Policy Predictions: 2nd Annual Survey
December 2025 • By Jared Rhoads
The Quiet Ban on Physician-Owned Hospitals
November 2025 • By Jared Rhoads
Toward a Health System Where Self-Referral Laws Are Obsolete
November 2025 • By Jared Rhoads
Do Cash-Only Ambulatory Surgical Centers Really Threaten Critical Access Hospitals?
October 2025 • By Jared Rhoads
Hospitals That Accept Public Dollars Owe Public Accountability
October 2025 • By Navin Ramesh
Letter to the Editor: About The Corporatization Deal
September 2025 • By Jared Rhoads
In Defense of Private Equity in Health Care, Mostly
September 2025 • By Jared Rhoads
It is Time to Overhaul the American Physician Licensing System
September 2025 • By Jason Cao
From Reimbursements to Relationships: The Promise of Direct Primary Care
September 2025 • By Jacob Gerhard
When an Insurance Rep Calls Mid-Surgery: What is the Real Breakdown?
August 2025 • By Jared Rhoads
States Should Consider Legalizing Overdose Prevention Centers
July 2025 • By Sushant Sharma and Jared Rhoads
Expanded Right to Try: Enabling the Federal Right to Try Law to Work as Intended
June 2025 • By Jared Rhoads
The Hidden Tyranny of So-Called 'Good' Tax Breaks
May 2025 • By Jared Rhoads
A Closer Look at the Critiques of Private Equity in Healthcare
March-April 2025 • By Jared Rhoads
Evaluating a New Senate Proposal to Reform Residency Funding
February 2025 • By Lawson Mansell and Jared Rhoads
A Critique of Health Equity: Questioning a Popular But Misguided Ideal
January 2025 • By Jared Rhoads
Health Policy Predictions: 1st Annual Survey
December 2024 • By Jared Rhoads
Social Determinants Point Us Toward Self-Determination
November 2024 • By Jared Rhoads
Overton Window for U.S. Health Insurance
October 2024 • By Jared Rhoads
Schools Should Set Their Own Smartphone Policies
September 2024 • By Jared Rhoads
Flatten the Tax Treatment of Health Insurance
August 2024 • By Jared Rhoads
The Right to Healthcare That We Do Have
July 2024 • By Jared Rhoads


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