Quoting Jimmy Fallon: "It’s amazing what you can achieve when you make something mandatory and fine people if they don’t do it and then keep extending the deadline for months." I’ve relayed this story before but the resignation of Kathleen Sibelius...
Investigative reporter Phil Cross, whose beat is government waste, delivers here the good news to the taxpayers our pricing represents. Hats off to Phil for this fine production and to the local Fox affiliate for airing this piece. I encourage you to listen...
Writing here for the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, Patrick McGuigan discusses the historic arrangement between our facility and Oklahoma County and the early success. In a related article here, McGuigan, writing for “Capitol Beat” reports on the...
While a link to this video is present on our website, I would like to highlight once again the video produced for us by Brad Riggan and Andrew Harris, principals of Liquid Media. The purpose of this video was to give the reluctant “medical tourist” a...
Alex Cameron of KWTV discusses with the legendary journalist Patrick McGuigan our unique arrangement with Oklahoma County, one which as I have previously written, has saved the County’s health plan $140,000 (it is actually more than this) in the first three weeks of...
Jon Wilkerson, Director of Human Resources/Benefits of the largest county in Oklahoma (Oklahoma County) bravely proposed to the elected officials of Oklahoma County that they enter into a direct contract with Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Aware of the experiences other...
It is getting more and more difficult to find gasoline without ethanol, even though the demand for the more efficiently burning pure gasoline remains strong. Central planners have decided to remove to some degree this choice from individuals. That’s what...
Dan O’Connor, editor in chief of “Outpatient Surgery” magazine has written yet another stinging article, one he has kindly allowed me to post on my blog…sorry about the disjointed format. Important definitions: ASC, ambulatory surgery center,...
Here is just a glimpse of what the government’s presence in medicine looks like. Read the entire thing if you can, although I admit I had trouble getting through it. Two of the things I remember about Dr. Ron Paul’s office were the picture of Murray...
Specialists and surgeons from all of Oklahoma’s top healthcare systems choose to operate here.