Recently I was asked to Washington D.C., to testify before the House Budget Committee on the distorting role government plays in healthcare markets. The full text of my remarks can be found here, and the full video of the testimony can be found here for those of you...
Some of my favorite authors, historical or fiction, are those who knew their writings would land them in jail, their careers would be destroyed or worse. I figured these people meant what they said and they felt strongly enough about it that they wrote it anyway,...
Every day I see reports about insurance companies that are radically increasing the amounts they charge for health insurance premiums. That doesn’t seem very affordable. Every day, there are patients that come to the Surgery Center of Oklahoma that have these...
Congratulations are due to the many people who ushered through the agreement that is now effective between the self-funded health plan of the State of Oklahoma and facilities like the Surgery Center of Oklahoma that have embraced price honesty. Patients that come here...
Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you – Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining me in this series. “Cancel your vacation. I’m sick!” That’s what somebody really means when they say they have a right to healthcare, isn’t it? People don’t really mean that they have...
Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you – Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining me in this series. I wrote an op-ed piece recently for the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons called “Repeal and Replace? No thanks!” This was confusing to some people;...
Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you – Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining me in this series. My friend, Jim Epstein, of Reason Magazine, told me when he was here doing his mini-documentary on our facility, that one of the characteristics he looked for in...
Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you – Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining me in this series. I’d like to talk a little bit about what single-payer healthcare would look like in the United States. Some of the most vicious comments I’ve ever received from this...
Is Obamacare intended to fail so that we could have single-payer? Was this law designed so that the entire United States healthcare system would crash and we would end up with single payer? For those of you cheering right now saying, “yes, if that’s what happens,...
TRANSCRIPT: Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you – Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Principiis obsta, et finem respice. This translates into “Resist the beginnings. Consider the ends.” I love this Latin phrase and I think about it often, particularly when I think about...
Specialists and surgeons from all of Oklahoma’s top healthcare systems choose to operate here.