Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you on behalf of the Free Market Medical Association. Thank you for joining me. The American College of Physicians recently recommended that the United States adopt a single-payer, Medicare for All, type system. These disastrous ideas are...
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,...
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...
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...
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....
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...
The following article was written by Dr. G. Keith Smith, M.D for the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. As more individuals move to freer, less locked-down states (like Oklahoma and Texas, for instance), the number of people saying “y’all” should greatly...
Recording courtesy of the Mises Institute. Last week, Dr. Keith Smith spoke at the Mises Institute’s Medical Freedom Summit. Listen as he discusses the Surgery Center of Oklahoma’s mission, history, and ground-breaking price transparency model, the broken healthcare...
Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you. Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining me. I’d like to talk briefly about a propaganda tool that I’ve seen used increasingly – inevitability. Inevitability means that someone characterizes the future that they would impose...
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...
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...
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...
