The Pursuit of Health: a podcast on health policy for a free and modern society.

Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) are blamed for making prescription drugs more expensive for profit. Yet, PBMs play a necessary role in navigating a complex third-party payer system. In this episode, Jessica Dobrinsky argues that adding more regulations onto PBMs will simply contribute to the complexity and inflexibility that has distorted the drug benefit market to begin with. Instead, we should be looking to increase the freedom to contract to better serve patients.Check out two of Jessica's Dobrinsky's articles on PBMs on her Substack here and here.Please like, share, and subscribe to our show. To support our show, and the Center for Modern Health, you can make a tax deductible donation here.

Corporate Practice of Medicine (CPOM) laws were intended to protect physicians from corporate control. But in practice, CPOM laws disarm physicians against corporations, including private equity backed takeovers. In this episode, we argue that doctors should embrace business, not insulate themselves from it, if they want to regain their professional autonomy.Please like, share, and subscribe to our show. To support our show, and the Center for Modern Health, you can make a tax deductible donation here.

The un-affordability of healthcare is not merely an economic issue, but an issue of justice and what we have a right to in healthcare. In this episode, Colleen Smith and Reinier Schuur argue that the view that we have a right to healthcare without consideration of cost is unjust and leads to its un-affordability. What we do have a right to is the freedom to have a relationship with doctors that does consider cost, which justly rewards doctors and drives down costs.

Healthcare reform is back in the national spotlight. But what are the prospects that the broken American healthcare system will be reformed in a way that not only preserves the little freedom that remains within it, but actually expands it? In this episode Reinier Schuur, Colleen Smith, and Jared Rhoads expose the shortcoming of both the progressive and conservative approaches to reforming American healthcare and present their pro-freedom alternative.

A free market in healthcare is based on the recognition that your health is your own. Yet there is a legitimate role of government in the realm of public health. In this episode, Reinier Schuur discusses with Dr. Amesh Adalja the crucial distinction between private and public health, and what the legitimate and illegitimate roles of government are in the realm of public health.

Academic programs in health policy have a bias against free-market ideas, leaving students who want a market-oriented perspective with no real alternatives in academia. In this episode, Jared Rhoads shares how he came to launch the Center for Modern Health, which aims to fill that gap and help train the next generation of health policy advocates for free markets.