Free market-loving, price-displaying, state-of-the-art, AAAHC accredited, doctor owned, multispecialty surgical facility in central OK.
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Recommend this book, the first chapter of which highlights "what is not seen," the devastation downstream of the government robbery you champion.
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Surgery Center of OK retweeted
Jun 13
Thanks to socialism, the average Zimbabwean became a trillionaire before @elonmusk šŖ
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Surgery Center of OK retweeted
I donāt care that someone is wealthier than I am.
I do care that my wealth is being stolen through taxation and inflation.
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I do. GKS
I know how Elon Musk became a trillionaire, but I don't know how Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Nancy Pelosi became millionaires.
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Surgery Center of OK retweeted
Jun 12
When I give my savings to @elonmusk they multiply. When I give them to you and all of the US government, they disappear.
Jun 12
Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire.
The typical American household would have to work more than 11 MILLION years to make Elon Musk's level of wealth.
We need a wealth tax.
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Surgery Center of OK retweeted
Jun 12
if you believe the @AmerMedicalAssn represents doctors, then you should also believe that @drpepper is a real doctor.
Jun 12
Breaking šØ: The American Medical Association publicly announced it is "GOING TO WAR" with Secretary Kennedy and the HHS.
And doctors wonder why trust is collapsing.
Families wanted humility. They got a battlefield.
Medicine had a chance to choose dialogue, common ground, and transparency.
Instead, it chose the same arrogant playbook that destroyed public trust in the first place.
Medicine keeps proving it would rather fight for control than sit at the table and help make America healthier.
Iām embarrassed for my profession.
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To the extent anyone is making you poor, government is doing much more to that end than Elon musk ever couldāor would.
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Surgery Center of OK retweeted
Jun 13
The reason anyone gets insanely rich is almost always because of the stock market. It certainly how @elonmusk did.
And the reason they get rich from the stock market, is because 150m Americans decided they wanted to own shares of stocks directly, or through their retirement plans, or through other approaches as a way of building their net worth and trying to create a better life for themselves.
One Hundred Fifty Million Americans. About 60% of adults.
Effectively believing that @elonmusk and many billionaires could make them wealthier and help them achieve a better life.
If you want @elonmusk , and most billionaires to no longer be that rich, convince those 150m to sell their stocks, funds, ETFs whatever.
Of course you would wipe out the net-worth of most of those people, and everyone elseās savings, as the markets crashed and brought down the economy and created the worst depression we have ever seen.
Alternatively
There are ways to improve healthcare access and eventually make it available to all.
To start -
If you want @elonmusk and all billionaires to improve healthcare for everyone , ask them to stop doing business with the enormous healthcare conglomerates and to work directly with transparently priced care providers.
Itās the behemoth HC conglomerates that make HC so bad for so many. (Check my timeline for more detail)
Removing them would push the cost of healthcare down for everyone. Their corporate decisions impact our healthcare cost and availability.
Of course if they do that, not only would our HC costs go down , and the quality of care for their employees and the entire country go up
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They would see their corporate cash flow increase dramatically and we would have more millionaires, billionaires and maybe even another trillionaire when that cash flow moved from the big health care conglomerates to their bottom line, so would the net worth of the 150 million American adults that own public stocks
Capitalism is better than socialism because 150m Americans can influence exactly what happens in this country.
Jun 12
Capitalism is better than socialism because one man gets to be a trillionaire instead of everyone having healthcare
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Exceptional outcomes are delivered by exceptional teams.
The nurses preparing the room. The technicians ensuring every instrument is ready. The anesthesiologists monitoring every detail. The staff coordinating every step.
Surgery Center of Oklahoma has built an exceptional team, many of whom have been with us for 10, 20, or even 25 years. That kind of longevity speaks to the culture we've created and the pride our people take in their work.
When talented healthcare professionals choose to stay, patients benefit from the experience, consistency, and teamwork that only come with time. That's part of the SCO difference.
Price your procedure today at SurgeryCenterOK.com
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Great post! The momentum is shifting and buyers and sellers are interacting more directly, making the spread pricing scam more visible along with the fog machines that have obscured them. GKS @FreeMarketMed
Jun 12
Employers donāt know the price of medical care from big hospitals.
Employers donāt know how much their insurance company pays those hospitals or providers for that same care
If you donāt know the price, and you donāt know what your insurance company paid for that care.
How do you know if what your employer should be paying the insurance company for that care ?
You donāt.
Spread pricing from insurance conglomerates is an enormous tax on employers.
Direct Contracting is the answer. It most cases, it costs so much less, the employer can eliminate the employee out of pocket cost !
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The hospital/provider will make more money with the insurance conglomerate out of the middle.
Costpluswellness.Com for direct contracts you can use.
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Surgery Center of OK retweeted
I charge $350 for a new patient visit. This includes a number of procedures (nasal endoscopy, laryngoscopy, ear microscopy) if necessary.
Hereās why I donāt take insurance. This plan believes that visit is worth $13.96. I honestly donāt know how any doctor can afford to take insurance.
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Great post, Anthony. GKS
One of my best friends is an accountant. He knows about as much about medicine as I know about double entry bookkeeping, which is next to nothing.
Early in the COVID pandemic, he asked me about the rules. He was not trying to make a political point. He was trying to make sense of what he was being told.
Why did he need to wear a mask while waiting for a table at a restaurant, but not while eating? Why did his two year old need to wear a mask at daycare, but take it off to nap? Why were playgrounds locked up? Why could people exercise on the beach, but not sit there with their family?
And perhaps most damaging of all, why was protest described by many as a public health imperative, while keeping a business open was treated as reckless?
That is when a lot of ordinary people started losing trust. Not because they suddenly became anti science. Not because they were too stupid to understand public health. Because they could see the inconsistency, the hypocrisy, and the moving goalposts.
I understand why physicians are frustrated by partisan ideology. I do not administer vaccines, but I can imagine this is a miserable time to be a family medicine doctor who does.
But pieces like this are part of the problem.
The breakdown in trust did not begin with Trump, RFK Jr., or Casey Means. The Casey Means nomination was unfortunate, but it was a symptom of the disease, not the cause.
In California, Gavin Newsom ordered sweeping restrictions on businesses and ordinary life, then was caught dining at the French Laundry with executives from the same California Medical Association that published this piece.
People remember that.
So maybe we should stop pretending trust was destroyed only by the other tribe. It was also destroyed by leaders and institutions that demanded sacrifice from everyone else, then acted as if the rules were optional for themselves.
But rebuilding trust will require honesty, humility, and a little less partisan finger pointing.
Pieces like this do not rebuild trust. They remind people why they lost it.
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Exactly. Thoughts that the AMA is a physician advocate at this point are not justified. GKS
The AMA contributed greatly to this "fracturing" the speaker decries, by endorsing and energetically promoting the same Obamacare that has driven the crisis.
However, it worked out well for them.
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Many of our patients first find SCO when they are trying to understand what a procedure will actually cost.
They returned for their next surgery because the care they received was exceptional.
Clear bundled pricing, consistent communication, and attentive care build long-term trust.
Thank you for trusting us with your care, and referring us to your friends and family!
Price your procedure today at surgerycenterok.com
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Far too many physicians are burned out by a system Uncle Sam created, colluding with the AMA, no more than a government subcontractor. I don't know a physician that belongs to this organization. GKS
Jun 10
āThe cracks in our health system are no longer small fractures ... hidden beneath the walls. They are structural failures affecting lives every single day.ā
In his inaugural address as the AMAās 181st president, Willie Underwood III, MD, MSc, MPH, delivers a call to action for medicine. From physician shortages and burnout to persistent barriers to care, he highlights the challenges facing patients and physicians, as well as the responsibility to build a more equitable, accessible health system for all.
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Central planning never works. Their pricing failure, while disastrous, isn't nearly as catastrophic & deadly as CMS controlling entire industry as many desire (Medicare for All). Euthanasia solving Canada's predictable supply-demand issues. GKS
Jun 6
Speaking as patient, not a provider: the way Medicare pays doctors makes me sick. Often ludicrously low.
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Last Medicare open heart paid me $285 for anesthesia services (6 hrs, invasive monitoring, re-do valve/CABG, balloon pump) in 1992. Last Medicare total knee paid me $78 in '93. Quit doing hearts and quit filing Medicare claims-treated as charity. GKS
This is objectively false.
If I come in at 2am and do a craniectomy for traumatic brain injury, I would get paid more if I didn't bill for the surgery and just billed for the postoperative care instead.
CMS has consistently reduced payment to surgeons relative to "thinking" specialties. And this is not an argument that "thinking" specialties deserve less money than "cutting" specialties.
It's an argument that CMS central planning has unintended consequences.
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Surgery Center of OK retweeted
Think. Why sign the Provider Agreement?
Hear what @realdocspeaks says?
See @SurgeryCenterOK to learn how!
Donāt be the victim. Take charge.
@MattOhrt19674 @FreeMarketMed
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Surgery Center of OK retweeted
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Perhaps 70% of work done in hospitals need not be done in hospitals?
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