Hello, Dr. Keith Smith with you on behalf of the Free Market Medical Association (FMMA), thank you for joining me. “If you like your insurance, you can keep it.” Is that a lie that many of you believed? I knew it was a lie when I heard it. I received this letter on...
Hello, Dr. Keith Smith with you on behalf of the Free Market Medical Association. Thank you for joining me. We are continuing our unraveling of the secrets or big lies told by Big Pharma with our expert Chad Schmidt. You go into a big national chain pharmacy with a...
The Free Market Medical Association Annual Conference is approaching. Imagine you could be in a room - at one time, in one place – with all of those who want to buy free market healthcare, all of those who are actually selling healthcare at free market pricing and all...
"The free market doesn't apply to healthcare." I don't know how many times I have heard this, although the pricing and quality resulting from the Surgery Center of Oklahoma's and others' implementation of the principles and discipline of the market has caused many...
Here is a link to a study from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University (PDF) that objectively shows what most honest people have always instinctively known: that the purpose of certificate-of-need (CON) laws are quite simply to limit the number of providers in...
Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you – Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining us in this video blog series. Here’s scam #2: ‘pay-for-performance.’ First, let’s cover ‘pay for no performance.’ That would be what HMOs or ACOs (Accountable Care Organizations) do....
TRANSCRIPT: Hello, Dr. Keith Smith with you, Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining me in this video blog series. Here’s scam #1, as promised. Let’s start with electronic medical records. You know, the state has such great ideas, they have to be mandatory....
I laugh every time I see headlines bragging about the number of people enrolled in “Obamacare.” What choice to people have, after all? ”Buy this crappy insurance plan (that you wouldn’t buy unless you were forced), or face the wrath of the IRS bayonet.” And then...
Brandon Dutcher, senior VP at the Oklahoma Council of Public affairs, sent me this Washington Examiner article by Tim Carney. Mr. Carney assumes that his readers are familiar with King v. Burwell, a case before the Supreme Court that most agree represents a death blow...
Riding in to rescue the victims of Obamacare and other government healthcare schemes are guess who? The legislators? The regulators? Don’t make me laugh. It is the growing group of healthcare free marketeers. The celebration following the receipt of an Obamacare...
Specialists and surgeons from all of Oklahoma’s top healthcare systems choose to operate here.