Daniel Goldberg and his Free Market Health Group are part of the emerging and growing cast that is introducing physicians to the idea that embracing the discipline of the free market, rather than rejecting or resisting this force, can actually be good for the...
Someone recently told me that a large hospital system “lost” 55 million on the primary care doctors they have hired, but “made” 60 million overall in profit last year. Let’s look at this closely.
Imagine for a moment that you own and operate a restaurant knowing that if you provide spoiled food and rotten service, you will subsequently make more money. You openly employ strong-arm and intimidation tactics to keep any conscientious employees from revealing...
A friend recently opined to me about his increasing frustration with those who are unable to distinguish between politics and religion, particularly those for whom politics is their religion. This describes statists of all stripes, I think. Folks either want to use...
Our local newspaper, the Daily Oklahoman, recently published this editorial by Stephen Parente, PhD, of the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. Make no mistake, Dr. Parente, writing opinion pieces like this one is in no danger of receiving an...
Kelly Carson, writing for Watchdog.org here, praises the leader of Oklahoma County’s group health plan (Jon Wilkerson) for the success of their arrangement with our facility. I thought it might be informative to summarize the nature of our “arrangement” with Oklahoma...
Forbes Magazine’s Josh Archambault wrote recently about the trouble the hospitals in Arkansas are having getting their grubby hands on more taxpayer dollars. You can read it here. His story centers around how a popular and powerful Republican legislator, the...
One of the smartest people I have ever met is a property and contracts lawyer, someone from whom I have gleaned countless and valuable insights over the years. He has advised me, among other things, to lead a “haggle-free” business life, where bids solicited from...
OCPA’s Brandon Dutcher sent along this article. It seems that some of the biggest Obamacare loud mouths, also Medicaid expanders, don’t want this in their back yard.
I have been asked many times to pass on a reading list to readers of this blog. I have resisted because I find that I am most affected by what I have most recently read many times. While the older I get, the more uncommonly I encounter a jaw-dropping new perspective...
Specialists and surgeons from all of Oklahoma’s top healthcare systems choose to operate here.