Center for Modern Health is rated Right-Center with High factual reporting by Media Bias Fact Check.
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- Overall, we rate the Center for Modern Health Right-Center Biased because it consistently advocates free-market healthcare, reduced government regulation, private-sector competition, and opposes universal government-run healthcare. We rate it High for factual reporting due to strong sourcing, transparent leadership, and no evidence of failed fact checks or promotion of anti-vaccine pseudoscience.
Detailed Report
Bias Rating: RIGHT-CENTER (4.6)
Factual Reporting: HIGH (1.5)
Country: USA
MBFC’s Country Freedom Rating: MOSTLY FREE
Media Type: Organization/Foundation
Traffic/Popularity: Minimal Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: HIGH CREDIBILITY
History
The Center for Modern Health (CMH) is a free-market healthcare policy think tank founded in 2024 and based in Hanover, New Hampshire. According to its About page, its mission is to promote healthcare policies based on individual choice, voluntary exchange, entrepreneurship, competition, and reduced government involvement.
CMH was founded by Executive Director Jared Rhoads, MPH, MS, who also teaches health policy in Dartmouth’s graduate public health program. The organization publishes policy research, commentary, testimony, surveys, and the Health Freedom Index, which compares states based on regulatory restrictions and individual and provider freedom in healthcare.
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Funded by / Ownership
The Center for Modern Health is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization led by founder and Executive Director Jared Rhoads and overseen by a Board of Directors. The organization states that it is supported through gifts, grants, and private contributions and does not accept government funding.
CMH publicly identifies its leadership and board members and discloses its location and general funding model. However, it does not prominently provide a detailed list of individual donors or grant-making organizations on its website.
Analysis / Bias
The Center for Modern Health demonstrates a consistent right-leaning libertarian approach to healthcare policy. Its stated mission explicitly calls for reducing the size and influence of government in healthcare while expanding private markets, individual choice, competition, and voluntary exchange. This places it economically to the right of center, particularly on regulation, public insurance programs, and universal healthcare.
For example, Shaping Both the Big Debates and the Many Sub-Debates in Health Policy rejects universal coverage as the proper goal of health policy and argues that centralized programs and government regulation can restrict individual choice and innovation. Likewise, Profit-Driven Healthcare Hasn’t Failed Patients, But Regulation-Driven Healthcare Has argues that government intervention rather than the profit motive is a primary source of dysfunction in the U.S. healthcare system.
The organization also criticizes both Democratic and Republican healthcare interventions. For example, How Not to Sell Free-Market Healthcare Ideas criticizes the Trump administration’s healthcare proposal for failing to pursue meaningful free-market reform. This suggests its political orientation is driven more by libertarian economic principles than loyalty to a political party.
We also reviewed its treatment of vaccines because its emphasis on medical freedom and opposition to government mandates could potentially overlap with anti-vaccine advocacy. We found no evidence that CMH promotes vaccine misinformation or pseudoscience. Its references to vaccination primarily concern opposition to compulsory government mandates, while other material describes mRNA technologies positively. Articles generally cite academic research, government data, policy studies, and established medical literature.
Failed Fact Checks
- None found from major fact-checking organizations.
Overall, we rate the Center for Modern Health Right-Center Biased because it consistently advocates free-market healthcare, reduced government regulation, private-sector competition, and opposes universal government-run healthcare. We rate it High for factual reporting due to strong sourcing, transparent leadership, and no evidence of failed fact checks or promotion of anti-vaccine pseudoscience. (D. Van Zandt 10/22/2026)
Source: https://centerformodernhealth.org/
Last Updated on October 22, 2026 by Media Bias Fact Check
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