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.
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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