Put your faith in politicians, put your trust in government, and you will ultimately be let down. This is the latest from single-payer pioneer Britain, where rationing care (either directly or through long wait times) is standard.

Put your faith in politicians, put your trust in government, and you will ultimately be let down. This is the latest from single-payer pioneer Britain, where rationing care (either directly or through long wait times) is standard.

Baby boy denied treatment in UK would be given it in any US hospital

An eight month old boy being denied "potentially life-saving" treatment at a British hospital would be given it at any hospital in America, a court...

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"Obamacare has famously failed to live up to its sponsor’s lofty promises.... But there are three deeper fundamental failures embedded in the law that must be fully repealed and not transplanted into any Republican replacement."

How to Drain the Health Care Swamp

Conservative principles, not political posturing, should guide the repeal and replacement of Obamacare.

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Excellent point here!

Surgery Center of Oklahoma

As it turns out, there's a big difference between medical care and health care. Because a patient's health condition, after all, is partly their responsibility.

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Medicaid Explodes, States are on the Hook http://ow.ly/DvC2100pAGX

Medicaid Explodes

New Medicaid enrollments vastly exceed estimates, and states are on the hook, the Wall Street Journal writes in an editorial.

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Surgery Center of Oklahoma

Imagine for a moment that you are in a board room of a hospital and you suggest in a strategic planning meeting that you can distinguish yourself in the marketplace from you competitors by just not ripping people off.

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Socialized medicine is handing control of your healthcare to politicians. Here's the latest from the UK.

NHS bosses 'trying to keep cuts secret' - BBC News

NHS chiefs have tried to keep local plans to cut hospital services in England secret, a study finds.

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Surgery Center of Oklahoma

Recently I was asked to Washington D.C., to testify before the House Budget Committee GOP and Rep. Tom Price on the distorting role government plays in healthcare markets. Here's what I had to say:

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A physician explains why Obama's focus on insurance coverage is a political smokescreen: "Doctors like me look at health insurance very differently than Obama does. To us, insurance often presents a cumbersome roadblock to actual health care."

Dr. Marc Siegel: Why this doctor hates Obamacare

When President Obama gave an impassioned defense of Obamacare last week in advance of this November

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NC Blue Cross announces rate increase of 24.3 percent for ACA...

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina has announced it will increase premiums for Affordable Care Act plans on the individual market by an...

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Surgery Center of Oklahoma

Recently, a U.S. Congressman attempted to delegitimize the free market healthcare movement because he described a situation in which healthcare could not be priced ahead of time. Here's my response.

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"How bad is the problem? Nobody really knows." Of course, some people will say, just ratchet up the subsidies even more ... more free stuff! The problem is, at some point, you run out of other people's money....

The Obamacare problem that Democrats don't want to talk about

A looming affordability challenge that the White House rarely discusses.

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"Smug propagandists for Obamacare, such as liberal magazine Mother Jones, continue to dismiss the plight of millions of families like mine and accuse us of concocting a 'phony' crisis. But it's the architects of Obamacare who prevaricated all along. Remember: Obamacare godfather and MIT professor Jonathan Gruber bragged that 'lack of transparency' was a 'huge political advantage,' along with what he derided as 'the stupidity of the American voter.'"

Obama Lied. My Third Health Plan Just Died. | RealClearPolitics

Once was a shock. Twice was an outrage. Thrice is a nightmare that won't end. Over the past three years, my family's private, individual health insurance plan -- a high-deductible Preferred Provider...

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So here's where Obamacare is today... Millions of Americans are losing their health plans. When they look for a new plan, there are fewer choices. The plans that remain cost more--far, far more when we consider the subsidies taxpayers are forced to pay. And, as this article points out at the end, even people who are paying more are getting less and worried about losing access to doctors and treatments they need.

More Than 1 Million in Obamacare Are Set to Lose Plans as Insurers Quit

A growing number of people in Obamacare are finding out their health insurance plans will disappear from the program next year, forcing them to...

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Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs

Oklahomans on Obamacare may see their insurance rates skyrocket. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oklahoma, the only health insurer offering plans on the federal exchange in 2017, has submitted increases for individual market plans ranging from 58 to 96 percent.

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"Between rate increases and the severe decline in competition as insurers make their exits, policy holders will be left scrambling this fall to determine whether they can cut back elsewhere to afford the growing costs of health insurance. If not, they'll be forced to swallow the bitter pill of paying the tax penalty imposed by ObamaCare's individual mandate on those who lack coverage."

ObamaCare's Death Spiral Has Begun

Will the last one out of ObamaCare please turn off the lights? That's a question that health insurers and individual Americans both may want to...

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"President Obama promised us change. And change things have – especially our skyrocketing health insurance premiums. ... We need an approach to health care that actually drives costs down rather than the most egregious anti-business provisions of the ACA, which are causing health insurance premiums to rise to unsustainable levels. One such provision is the Health Insurance Tax."

Rep. Tom Newell: What pro-business means

An outright repeal of the Affordable Care Act is the only way to make health insurance affordable again.

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Teachers and state employees are better off this year because of a simple change to their health insurance. Two crazy things: 1) Just adding another choice of care providers is going to save millions of dollars, shared by workers and taxpayers; 2) Hospitals like OU Medical Center oppose giving people more health care choices!

The Trent England Show

Dr. Keith Smith with Surgery Center of Oklahoma talks about a program helping teachers and state employees save on medical expenses, and why the nation's problems with health care are not the result of the failure of the free market, but the absence of it. Plus, what to look for during the first presidential debate. Listen to today's podcast below or on iTunes at http://apple.co/2ay5nky.

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Surgery Center of Oklahoma

The phrase 'population health management' sounds benign enough, but it is very scary, particularly for anyone with an underlying medical problem.

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"The Obama administration has only itself to blame for the ObamaCare failures—first for jamming this bill through Congress despite warnings that the structure of the bill was an economic disaster, and then for exacerbating the breakdown through its regulatory dictates. The ACA was sold on the pretense that we could have a private, competitive market...."

Obama Sabotages ObamaCare

The ACA and the administration's whack-a-mole regulations are responsible for double-digit premium increases and for the exodus of insurers from selling individual policies in the ObamaCare exchanges.

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This is actually happening in Oklahoma, as documented by KFOR-TV. State workers and teachers are being allowed more health care choices. The result is that they save money (and probably get better care), and taxpayers save a lot of money, too. This is what competition does. It exerts a force on providers to be more transparent, to prove their quality, and to find ways to lower their costs in order to lower their prices in order to compete. It's common sense. It is exactly the opposite of Obamaca

FREE surgery for Oklahoma teachers, state workers

OKLAHOMA CITY — This year has been tough for state employees and teachers. Two revenue failures at the state capitol spelled out fiscal hardship...

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