Medicaid and Medicare

Why repealing the “affordable care act” wouldn’t be a disaster

Aug 5, 2017 | Featured, Medicaid and Medicare

Hello, Dr. Keith Smith with you here on behalf of the Free Market Medical Association (FMMA), thank you for joining me. 20 million people, apparently, are going to lose their insurance if the unaffordable coverage act is repealed. This, of course, is according to the...

Why Big Pharma’s relationship with Big Media is harmful to the consumer

Apr 18, 2017 | Featured, Medicaid and Medicare, Pharmaceutical Industries

Hello, Dr. Keith Smith with you once again on behalf of the Free Market Medical Association, joined by my good friend Chad Schmidt. Chad, thanks for being with us once again. It occurred to me watching the Super Bowl that the only people that seem to be able to buy...

Medical Care vs. Health Care

Dec 7, 2016 | Blog, Medicaid and Medicare

Let’s talk for a minute about medical care vs healthcare. My friends at the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, an organization to which every physician should belong, have made the distinction between these two phrases very clear. Physicians, after all,...

My remarks at the House Budget Committee

Oct 28, 2016 | Medicaid and Medicare

I was recently invited to testify before the House Budget Committee in Washington about the distorting influence of government in the healthcare market. While one definition of government could be “a distorting influence,” the requested laundry list of examples would...

If You’re On Medicare, You Should Be Angry

Aug 7, 2015 | Blog, Medicaid and Medicare

Hello, Dr. Keith Smith with you – Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining us in this video blog series. Would you be angry if you discovered that your entire working life, you had sent money to someone every 2 weeks – money that was supposed to be put back...

Will expanding Medicaid really help the economy?

Jul 28, 2015 | Blog, Medicaid and Medicare

In my most recent video blog for the Free Market Medical Association, I describe what will happen if we expand Medicaid. Read the transcript here: -------------- Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you on behalf of the Free Market Medical Association. Thank you for joining...

Scam Series: Medicare and Medicaid

Jun 6, 2015 | Featured, Medicaid and Medicare

TRANSCRIPT: Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you – Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining us in this video blog series. Let’s keep going with the scams: Medicare and Medicaid. That sounds crazy for me to call those scams, doesn’t it? But it might not sound so...

Obamacare, NASCAR and Medicaid

Feb 3, 2015 | Blog, Medicaid and Medicare

Every day, people go to Washington, D.C. to rent or buy legislators. (I like the idea that legislators, like NASCAR drivers, should proudly exhibit their sponsors on their suits.) This is nothing new, and only the most naive would believe that the vast majority of...

Why Medicare Has Tanks and F-16’s

Aug 9, 2012 | Blog, Medicaid and Medicare

While you read what I’ve posted below keep in mind that this is a private firm acting as an intermediary between physicians and government to make this understandable! Show this to someone you know who thinks we need more government in medicine. Good Morning, Are you...