Telehealth jurisdictional choice

Updated: 2025.08.13 6M ago 1 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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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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