What happens when you shove insurance aside and the distortion that they introduce in prices is eliminated? About two years ago I had to buy a roof for my home. Long story short, the insurance company I was dealing with would not replace the hail-damaged roof on my...
Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you on behalf of the Free Market Medical Association. This video is really intended for physicians out there who may need a little refresher on what we’re talking about when we say ‘self-funding’ or the ‘self-insured.’ There are companies –...
Dr. Keith Smith with you on behalf of the Free Market Medical Association. I’d like to take this opportunity to encourage any and all of you watching this to attend the conference next month here in Oklahoma City, August 18-20. The attendance and registration details...
At the bottom of the written version of this blog, there will be a link provided to a very important graph, one which shows the rate of rise of healthcare spending in the United States over time, the rate of rise of the number of administrators in healthcare over time...
Are you a physician who complains about your practice and how the government has systematically disrupted the relationship physicians have traditionally had with their patients? Are you a physician who is truly concerned about the care your patients will receive from...
Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you – Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining me in this series. I’d like to talk a little bit about what single-payer healthcare would look like in the United States. Some of the most vicious comments I’ve ever received from this...
Is Obamacare intended to fail so that we could have single-payer? Was this law designed so that the entire United States healthcare system would crash and we would end up with single payer? For those of you cheering right now saying, “yes, if that’s what happens,...
Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you – Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining me. I’d like to discuss a concept and an activity called ‘shared savings.’ This is the same as repricing, but I think it’s a little easier to understand, actually. Remember in...
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