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An Embarrassing Comparison

Ardmore, Oklahoma, although medically colonized by  the Sisters of Mercy and their stormtroopers, is home to a real charity, one that provides health care to the poor without bankrupting them.  The Good Shepherd Community Clinic offers free medical care to veterans,...

What a great picture.  I especially like the steam oozing out of the grate. GKS

There aren’t any checks and balances if the government is wrong. If a private entrepreneur makes a mistake, he goes bankrupt— the losses are cut. If he bets wrong, he loses. If the government bets wrong, they just get bigger. They just appropriate more money. It’s a...

Obamacare, Just Another Bail Out

Try to think of Obamacare as yet another bail out of a troubled industry.  Many folks, financially able, had elected to forego the purchase of health insurance.  This was due to the fact that in their minds as consumers, the value of the product didn’t match the...

Why Canadacare Trumps Obamacare

For all I’ve written about the Canadian healthcare system, I think that all things considered, it is probably better (as awful as it is) than what we know as Obamacare.  I see the two recent candidates as a socialist (the winner) and a fascist (the loser).  The...

GUNvernment Health Care

I am not an economist.  I consider myself a student of the school of economics sometimes referred to as the “Austrian” school.   Having said this, it is with some uncertainty that I write the following piece.  Oh well.  Here goes. Everyone wants to be part of a...

Costs More Means More Affordable?

So the hospital stocks soared yesterday subsequent to the re-election of the current White House occupant.  I think it’s safe to assume that their stock price and his re-election are connected.  The stocks soared because the stockholders view these corporate...

“Faith-Based” Hospital Attempts Robbery

We operated on a young man today with a torn Achilles tendon.  This is a devastating injury, the treatment for which is not optional.  He had no insurance.  We did his surgery for $5730.  This included the facility fee, the surgeon’s fee and the anesthesia fee....

Surgery Center of Oklahoma on the Silver Screen

Reason Magazine (Reason.TV) will apparently release their documentary on free market health care featuring our surgery center on November 15th, Thursday, next week.  I haven’t seen it but having been one that is interviewed in the piece, and having provided much...

Oklahoma’s Top Surgeons and Anesthesiologists | Surgery Center of Oklahoma

Oklahoma’s Top Surgeons & Anesthesiologists

Specialists and surgeons from all of Oklahoma’s top healthcare systems choose to operate here.

  • Anesthesiology
  • Ear, Nose and Throat (Otolaryngology)
  • Foot and Ankle
  • General Surgery
  • Neurosurgery
  • Gynecology
  • Ophthalmology
  • Oral and Maxillofacial Plastic Surgery
  • Orthopedics
  • Reconstructive Plastics
  • Urology