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Vapor Cigarettes and Veiled Medicaid Expansion in Arkansas

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...

Government Healthcare as a Contract Breech

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...

Expand Medicaid! Just not in my office.

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.

Reading List

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...

My Interview with Albert Lu’s “Power and Market Report”

Here is my half hour interview with Albert Lu, an intensely well-informed disciple of the Austrian School of economics.  I thoroughly enjoyed visiting with him and hope you enjoy it, as well. G. Keith Smith, M.D. For more information about free market health care,...

William Jasper Skewers Corporate Health Cronies with his Pen

In a related article, The New American’s William Jasper exposes the health industry’s cronyism, all enabled by the federal government.  You can read it here.  This is courageous, “take no prisoners” journalism.   Dr. Lantier and I thoroughly...

New American’s William Jasper Captures the Essence of SCO

William Jasper, senior editor of The New American Magazine, has combined his gift as a writer with his recently obtained knowledge about what we are doing at the Surgery Center of Oklahoma.  The result is one of the finest articles I have ever read.  You can read it...

Hidden Costs

The Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OHCA) which administers Medicaid in the state of Oklahoma and facing anticipated budget shortfalls, has proposed an increase in the copays Medicaid beneficiaries should pay for medicines and doctor visits.  Before you give too much...

Change is in the air

Here is an article I recently wrote for the Free Market Medical Association (FMMA) that I thought many of you would find interesting.  Since writing this only a few days ago the membership demand from those seeking free market minded physicians and facilities...

Forbes’ Glen Tullman Compares Us to Apple and Uber

Glen Tullman, writing for Forbes Magazine, compares the innovation of our price posting to that of the companies, Apple and Uber here.  Here is a quote from the article, one that will give you an idea of the author’s thoughts about what we are doing: "If you do...

Oklahoma’s Top Surgeons and Anesthesiologists | Surgery Center of Oklahoma

Oklahoma’s Top Surgeons & Anesthesiologists

Specialists and surgeons from all of Oklahoma’s top healthcare systems choose to operate here.

  • Anesthesiology
  • Ear, Nose and Throat (Otolaryngology)
  • Foot and Ankle
  • General Surgery
  • Neurosurgery
  • Gynecology
  • Ophthalmology
  • Oral and Maxillofacial Plastic Surgery
  • Orthopedics
  • Reconstructive Plastics
  • Urology