Check out this article by Reason Magazine’s editor in chief, Nick Gillespie (many thanks to Brandon Dutcher of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs for bringing this article to my attention). It turns out that the uninsured folks the Unaffordable Care Act was meant...
I once wrote about how happy one of my mother’s friends should have been when Medicare decided to no longer pay for her B-12 shots, as the private sector would figure out a way to make sure there were no shortages of B-12 injections. Ever. Central planners, on the...
My father recently asked me if any of the hospital administrators whose billing practices have bankrupted countless patients ever had face to face contact with those whose lives had been ruined by their greed. Or, he asked, were they like drone operators, destroying...
Imagine that you own a company with 100 employees. Your company has provided traditional health insurance to your employees at a cost of $45,000/month until about 3 years ago when you discovered that you could “self-insure.” You made this move because for many years...
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.
Specialists and surgeons from all of Oklahoma’s top healthcare systems choose to operate here.