Center for Modern Health
The Pursuit of Health: a podcast on health policy for a free and modern society.
Health and free choice in American medicine—a podcast on how individual rights, freedom, and mutual trade should guide patients and doctors in the pursuit of health. We challenge the moral and political ideas shaping healthcare and champion a system where individuals are free to think, choose, and pursue health in the American healthcare system. The Pursuit of Health covers topics like the morality of the profit motive in healthcare, why healthcare requires freedom, and how to advocate for policy change. Join us for insights at the crossroads of medical practice, policy, and philosophy.
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Episodes
The Socialization of American Healthcare 29.08.2025 24:15
In this episode of Rethinking American Healthcare, Drs. Colleen Smith and Reinier Schuur expose how American healthcare has been socialized from its very inception and discuss how liberating American healthcare requires Americans to rethink and reclaim freedom in medicine.
Jared Rhoads on training the next generation of free market health policy advocates 14.08.2025 45:48
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.
The Myth of a Free Market in American Healthcare 01.08.2025 35:23
American healthcare is not a free market and never has been. Why? Some economists have argued that healthcare cannot be sold on a free market like other goods and services. But the idea that healthcare should be 'above the market' predates modern economics. In the second episode in our series on 'Rethinking American Medicine', Drs. Colleen Smith and Reinier Schuur expose why the early American med...
Lin Zinser on advocating for free-markets in healthcare 18.07.2025 38:31
Lin Zinser shares her story of how she got involved in advocating for free-markets in healthcare by successfully fighting against the Colorado 208 commission in 2008. Get inspiration and practical advice on how you too can become an advocate for free-markets in healthcare.
Rethinking the American healthcare debate 12.07.2025 35:50
The way that American healthcare has been debated has failed to resolve the problems and deliver the values that Americans face in their pursuit of health. In this episode, Reinier Schuur and Colleen Smith expose what is wrong with the American healthcare debate and present a roadmap for rethinking and changing it.
Colleen Smith and her pursuit of health in emergency medicine 12.07.2025 25:55
Colleen Smith shares her story of how she got into emergency medicine and what she is doing to advocate for her values in the American healthcare system.
Introducing Reinier Schuur and the Pursuit of Health 12.07.2025 32:19
Caspar Safarlou interviews Reinier Schuur about how he got into health policy, his vision for Americans for Free Choice in Medicine, and the purpose of the Pursuit of Health podcast.
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