The Office of the Inspector General has decided that physician owned distributorships are unethical and probably illegal. Physician owned distributorships are companies that doctors set up to procure surgical implants from the manufacturers, implants that are then...
Dave Chase, writing for Forbes Magazine, has this to say about the Surgery Center of Oklahoma. After visiting with Mr. Chase for over an hour a few days ago, I expect to see more articles like this from him and others about free market driven healthcare and pricing...
A quote from Butler Shaffer’s “Boundaries of Order:” "Political institutions thrive by encouraging the development of various group identities. Insisting upon maintaining the clear distinctions of our collective boundary lines, they help to foment...
Check out this article by Dr. Paul Hsieh. This is a glimpse into what happens when as a society, we allow the “state” to declare that health care is a right. A Soviet-style brand of compassion awaits us all with the dream of Obamacare’s full...
Fareed Zakaria, noted editor of TIME magazine and known plagiarist recently tweeted this: “A pure free market model simply cannot work in providing health care unless we’re willing to let people who can’t pay die.” My first inclination is to ask him who should be...
Here’s an embarrassing video on the provider tax scam and why expanding Medicaid is supported by the corporate medical machine and many state governments from Americans for Prosperity. G. Keith Smith, M.D.
Joseph Stalin and Adolph Hitler weren’t exactly friends, but ideologically they were on the same page about many issues, the right to health care and the right to due process, amongst them. They were proponents of the former and obviously, not so much the latter. ...
I spoke to a group of legislators this morning about the price transparency phenonomen here in Oklahoma City at the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs. Brandon Dutcher served as master of ceremonies, beginning the affair with a short introduction then showing the...
Jim Epstein, writer and producer of the Reason Magazine video mini-documentary featuring our facility, has written a new blockbuster piece you can read here. He once again uses our facility as an example of free-market healthcare delivery. There are many links...
Obamacare: Minimum Coverage, Maximum Cost There’s mounting evidence that come fall, the health plans sold through the Obamacare exchanges will be bare bones affairs - with narrow networks of providers to select from, and heavy co-insurance once patients go “out of...
Specialists and surgeons from all of Oklahoma’s top healthcare systems choose to operate here.