Telehealth jurisdictional choice

Updated: 2026.05.12 27D ago 2 sources
Reframing telemedicine as a patient’s right to select out-of-state, state-licensed physicians without local licensure barriers, invoking dormant-commerce-like logic. — Impacts healthcare access, cost, and competition; challenges state extraterritorial regulation online; sets precedents affecting other sensitive services (e.g., reproductive care) and national market coherence.

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Betting on God
John F. Doherty 2026.05.12 75% relevant
The article centers on mail‑order/telemedicine abortion drugs and their cross‑jurisdictional delivery, which is exactly the policy problem 'telehealth jurisdictional choice' covers: it raises questions about where law, liability, and clinical responsibility attach when care is ordered in one place and consumed in another, implicating regulators, postal systems, prescribers, and courts.
Free the Patient: A Competitive-Federalism Fix for Telemedicine
Alex Tabarrok 2025.08.13 100% relevant
The article’s “free the patient” model and Marquette analogy to allow cross-state telemedicine without compacts or federal licensing.
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