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...
I have found that after I have spoken to a group about our free market surgery center, the same question pops up. Every time. Someone will always ask how our model applies to the poor and indigent and how many of those folks do we take care of, after all? ...
My favorite captioned drone pics so far. What a display by Dr. Rand Paul. He quoted Lysander Spooner on the floor of the senate, essentially, poetic vandalism of this “hallowed” chamber! Spooner once said the constitution didn’t apply to...
Here is my talk earlier today with Alex Chamessian, president of the Duke School of Medicine’s chapter of the Benjamin Rush Society. The video is about an hour long, beginning with the Reason.tv video of our facility, the end of which was a little jumpy. I...
The truth is that the common man’s love of liberty, like his love of sense, justice and truth, is almost wholly imaginary. As I have argued, he is not actually happy when free; he is uncomfortable, a bit alarmed, and intolerably lonely. He longs for the warm,...
Years ago, a hospital at which I took obstetrical anesthesia call, made a move that at the time I didn’t understand. They built a brand new obstetrical unit (it looked like something Frank Lloyd Wright designed) and began aggressively promoting this new...
Thanks to Brandon Dutcher of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs (OCPA) for passing this along. Most state and many city chambers of commerce are dominated by the big insurers and big hospitals, so it should come as no surprise that they have been backing the law...
Specialists and surgeons from all of Oklahoma’s top healthcare systems choose to operate here.