TRANSCRIPT: Hello. Dr. Keith smith with you again, coming to you from the Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining us in this video blog series. There are lots of exciting things happening here at the Surgery Center and here in the state of Oklahoma and I’d...
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...
My friend, Brandon Dutcher, was kind enough to take two days out of his busy schedule to act as master of ceremonies at our sold out Free Market Medical Association convention recently. While the substance of our meeting has received the highest praise, the flawless...
Forbes Magazine’s Josh Archambault wrote recently about the trouble the hospitals in Arkansas are having getting their grubby hands on more taxpayer dollars. You can read it here. His story centers around how a popular and powerful Republican legislator, the...
Phil Cross of Oklahoma City’s Fox affiliate, KOKH, has reported recently on the pricing at our facility and the savings generated for Oklahoma County’s self-funded plan. Here he interviews my friend Jonathan Small, Vice President for Policy at the...
San Antonio ophthalmologist, Dr. Kris Held visited our facility recently and wrote this piece afterwards. I have referred to Dr. Held in a previous blog as one of the better known national champions of medical practices free from government and third party...
In response to the OCPA (Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs) sponsored debate in which I participated last week, The Oklahoman, the largest newspaper in our state, published this opinion piece, one which nicely summarizes points made both by Avik Roy and me. While...
Michael Carnuccio, President of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, wrote this piece last week about the savings we have brought to the self-funded plan of the Oklahoma County government. He then challenges the state government to embrace the same agreement we...
Here is a video link to a recent debate on Medicaid Expansion in Oklahoma, a debate in which I was honored to be included by the conservative think tank, OCPA(Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs). Also asked to argue the opposing side was Forbes editor, Dr. Avik Roy....
Specialists and surgeons from all of Oklahoma’s top healthcare systems choose to operate here.