“The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups...
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“Let’s Talk About Money, Doctor.”
"I don’t want to have anything to do with the money part of medicine." "I just want to practice medicine and leave all of that money stuff to someone else." "I’m not any good at the business stuff." "I just want to do what I know I’m good at and...
Another Mercy Monument to Medical Bankruptcy
Remember hearing that one of the reasons we needed health care reform was to put an end to cost-shifting, that practice of padding someone’s hospital bill to cover “losses” for someone who couldn’t pay? I remember hearing that mandating...
Darth Vader and Faith Based Hospitals
Darth Mercy, Iron Fist for the regional Oklahoma Galactic Outpost of the Mercy Health System Empire, travelled from the local death star to their Watonga, Oklahoma colony, a conquered hospital and community, one that now, like many others, feels strangely dependent...
“I Can’t See the Doctor Because I’m Sick?”
Alan Zarembo reports in the Los Angeles Times that “Heart attack patients in states that require health care providers to report the outcomes of procedures to open blocked arteries are less likely to receive those live-saving treatments than patients in states without...
Food and Drug Gangsters
A government agency is using an isolated incident as an excuse to grab more power. As someone blogged on their Tumblr site the other day, “In other news, water is moist.” The FDA, always there to protect us from ourselves, wants the power to regulate...
Our New Friends
Check this out. When the producers of this video-documentary made this piece they didn’t know about our facility and our up-front pricing. I spoke to the Society of Professional Benefits Administrators last week and in the audience were the producers of this...
Virgil, Ovid and Obamacare
Ludwig von Mises adopted as his life motto a verse from Virgil: Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito. The translation is: Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it. His writings and his life reflect the extent to which he truly adopted...
Our contemporaries are constantly wracked by two warring passions: they feel the need to be led and the desire to remain free. Unable to destroy either of these contrary instincts, they seek to satisfy both at once. They imagine a single, omnipotent, tutelary power,...
Our “Advantage” Over the Rest
Thanks to my friend Jay Kempton of The Kempton Group, I was given the opportunity to address a gathering of the Society of Professional Benefits Administrators. This is primarily a group of third party administrators, folks whose jobs it is to process the health...
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