Episode 7: Which States Get Health Care Right?

The freedom to make decisions about your own health care varies dramatically depending on where you live. Thanks to a new Health Freedom Index developed by the Center for Modern Health and the Knee Regulatory Research Center at West Virginia University, we now have a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of how each state ranks in 54 policy variables across five categories assessing professional, institutional, patient, payment, and delivery freedom. In this episode, we examine the report's key findings and discuss ways in which the legal and regulatory environments in certain states affect how health care can be rendered and, naturally, how that affects patients. In addition to spotlighting the top five and bottom five performers, we also highlight the states which have improved and worsened by the widest margins in the last half-decade.