Hello, Dr. Keith Smith with you on behalf of the Free Market Medical Association (FMMA), thank you for joining me once again. Our annual meeting here in Oklahoma City is drawing near and will be held August 17 through the 19. I would encourage any of you that are...
Hello! Dr. Keith Smith and Jay Kempton, both of you from the Free Market Medical Association. Another one for you employers who are being ripped off and lied to. Earlier we talked about the cleaning lady or company who was going to charge you $20 a week, as opposed to...
Here’s a lie that you’ve been told and likely that you believe: “all of this transparent, online, bundled pricing… that’s good enough or my hernia surgery, maybe my gallbladder surgery, maybe my face lift, but that’s no good for me because I have some chronic disease...
Hello, Dr. Keith Smith and Jay Kempton, both with you from the Free Marketing Medical Association, continuing the Lies You Believe Series. “I’ll see you my house for 50% off. Wait! Make that 60% off!” If you’re not asking, “off of what?” you probably are involved in...
This is a lie for those of you who are employers who are self-funded and have your own health plan. Let’s say there are two administrators competing for your business. One tells you they’re going to charge you $15 per employee per month. The other tells you they’re...
Here is a lie that you probably have been told and likely believe. You’ve maybe been told that you cannot get health insurance unless you buy it from one of these exchanges, or you can’t get health insurance unless your employer is providing it. Maybe you’re retiring...
Here’s a lie that you’ve been told that I hope you don’t believe: in the health care market, you get what you pay for. I think we should discuss why this isn’t true. In many markets this is true, you do get what you pay for. But the health care market is so...
This is a special shout-out to someone who follows the Surgery center of Oklahoma on Facebook named John David Kilgore. I have an increasing respect for skeptics... for people who are not gullible and do not believe everything they hear. And John David Kilgore is...
Hello, Dr. Keith Smith with you on behalf of the Surgery Center of Oklahoma, thank you for joining me. We’ve discussed the two types of buyers of health care, now let’s discuss the two types of sellers. The first we’ll cover is unfortunately the most prevalent; the...
I’ve decided there are two types of buyers of health care in the United States. There are those who care what health care costs and there are those who don’t. Ask the average person how much they pay for their gallbladder surgery. They’ll likely scratch their head and...
Specialists and surgeons from all of Oklahoma’s top healthcare systems choose to operate here.