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March 4, 2015
Title: Canadians Coming Here for Health Care
Topic: Obamacare
Discussed by Dr. Keith Smith
with Surgery Center of Oklahoma
Canadians have
government healthcare, but do they actually have access to healthcare?
Dr. Keith Smith is the CEO and medical director of
The Surgery Center of Oklahoma
and is a member of AAPS, the association of
The American Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Smith says, “Canadians
are traveling to Oklahoma to our facility for surgery because they can’t get it
in Canada.” This speaks volumes about their quality of healthcare!
The only people who benefited from the passing of Obamacare are big insurance,
big pharmaceuticals, and big hospitals. And, of course, the government. “Government
officials should be required to wear NSACAR-type sponsorship jackets to show who
they are really working for,” says Terry Lowry.
One of the goals of Obamacare was to increase the number of people on Medicaid.
Listen in as Dr. Keith Smith discusses how the government lowered the
eligibility requirements for Medicaid, but now fewer and fewer doctors accept
that type of insurance! More people may have insurance now, but they can’t find
a doctor to help them!
However, Dr. Keith Smith is optimistic! “The free market is pretty much the
only hope for the people of America,” he says. Direct Care is an affordable
alternative to Obamacare and even self-insuring. Listen in as Dr. Smith explains
Direct Care and why the government is trying to ban them.
You can find Dr. Smith and pricing for his surgery center [here].
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March 4, 2014
Title: The $100 Aspirin and the Re-Pricing Scam
Topic: Steerage
Discussed by Dr. Keith Smith
with Surgery Center of Oklahoma
If you have ever had the
unpleasant experience of an ER visit, surgery, or hospital stay, you have
probably been charged $100 (or MORE!) for an aspirin or other type of
“inexpensive” medicine found over-the-counter. The hospital collects $5 and
“loses” the other $95.
This process is called “Steerage” and is getting out of control in hospitals
nationwide. But it’s not just hospitals who are involved; it’s the insurance
company, too!
President Obama says the solution to providing medical insurance to every person
in the United States begins with us – the tax-payers. I say it begins with
hospitals and the corrupt insurance and pharmaceutical companies!
You can find Dr. Keith Smith at www.SurgeryCenterOK.com.
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September 10, 2013
Title: Can You Opt-Out of ObamaCare?
Topic: Obamacare
Discussed by Dr. Keith Smith
with Surgery Center of Oklahoma
Part 1 of 2
Once, Dr. Smith asked Senator Orrin Hatch if he could punch out of Social
Security. Stating he would be happy to leave all his contributions with the
government, Dr. Smith simply wanted to stop paying into a bankrupt system.
Senator Hatch refused to answer his question.
Fast forward to today: can you decide to opt-out of ObamaCare?
The G.O.V.E.R.N.M.E.N.T needs ‘young contributors’ subsidizing the health
insurance costs for seniors. Why?
Listen in.
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Title: Dead Politicians Began the Ponzi Schemes Called Social Security and Medicare
Topic: Obamacare
Discussed by Dr. Keith Smith
with Surgery Center of Oklahoma
Part 2 of 2
Politicians, in their day,
collaborated with each other to spend OPM – Other People’s Money. Those who
voted for Social Security, then Medicare, knew they could win election, and
re-election, by buying votes with money from future generations.
Charles Ponzi went to jail. It would be hard to send the original politicians to
jail that passed Social Security…for they all grew gray hair…and most have died.
Rush Limbaugh once stated: “It’s hard to beat Santa Clause when he is running
for office.” True. But America needs a Statesman to stand and say, “Santa Clause
is false, and America is broke.”
Listen in.
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May 31, 2013
Title: Hunger Games: HMO Style
Topic: Obamacare
Discussed by Dr. Keith Smith
with Surgery Center of Oklahoma
HMO’s often hold doctors in a “gate keeper strangle hold”, making it increasingly more difficult to obtain approval for minor and simple surgeries and care treatments.
“We lost the paperwork” or “You’ll need to talk to someone else about that…” are classic delay tactics that insurance companies use when attempting to deny treatment. Dr. Keith Smith shares a story today of how this Hunger Games-style approach is becoming common place in the medical field.
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May 6, 2013
Title: The Truth about Medicaid
Topic: Obamacare
Discussed by Dr. Keith Smith
with Surgery Center of Oklahoma
Part 1 of 3
Hospitals are shouting that they will not survive, unless serious expansion is made to Medicaid. Are people getting tired of the rhetoric though? Just like the little boy who cried wolf, if the hospitals cry too hard and for too long, will the government just stop coming to its rescue?
Do all the high costs hospitals claim to have really exist? Are hospitals really having a hard time making ends meet and going bankrupt?
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Title: Part 2 of 3
Topic: Obamacare
Discussed by Dr. Keith Smith
with Surgery Center of Oklahoma
Are you one of the millions of people in America without insurance or are you self-insured? Do you fear that a doctor or hospital will sue you if you cannot pay your bill? Well, you are definitely not alone!
Take a close look at your bill the next time you are hospitalized. Do you really know what you are paying for? Is it just for services you were provided or are you paying for someone’s care else too?
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Title: Part 3 of 3
Topic: Obamacare
Discussed by Dr. Keith Smith
with Surgery Center of Oklahoma
The Surgery Center of Oklahoma is one-of-a-kind in America. People from every walk of life can come to receive high quality care at a much lower cost - because the doctors at the Surgery Center are devoted to making - and keeping - healthcare affordable to everyone.
Log on to Surgery Center of Oklahoma for more details.
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April 12, 2013
Title: Does Medicaid Expansion Solve Access to Care Problems?
Topic: Obamacare
Discussed by Dr. Keith Smith
with Surgery Center of Oklahoma
Part 1 of 2
Obamacare is “this”.
NO, Obamacare is “this”. Obamacare will help “this”. NO, Obamacare will do
“this”. Whatever side of the fence you are on, you MUST listen to the next 2
segments with Dr. Keith Smith.
Will Obamacare provide Universal Health Insurance or Universal Health Care? Or,
is it just a government panel choosing who gets health care and when?
Folks, what you hear in the next segments are FACT. No half-truths. No gimmicks.
No “read-between-the-lines” white lies. Just good, old-fashioned, honest to God facts.
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Title: Part 2 of 2
Topic: Obamacare
Discussed by Dr. Keith Smith
with Surgery Center of Oklahoma
The hospital and insurance
lobbies are deploying massive advertising campaigns to get more federal money
through Medicaid expansion. It uses the usual technique of tearful patients
telling how they lost their insurance.
It suggests that there are only two choices: 1) expand Medicaid or 2) let them
die.
Obviously, one of those ‘options’ isn’t even really an option. So, what’s the
plan?
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April 1, 2013
Title: The Story of the Carpenter
Topic: Health Care
Discussed by Dr. Keith Smith
with Surgery Center of Oklahoma
Part 1 of 2
There once was a carpenter (not the biblical one).
This carpenter showed up
with only 3 things to make a bid on a new deck: a pencil, notebook, and a tape
measure. Seems outrageous? Just the opposite.
This is how the Surgery Center of Oklahoma works: be upfront and honest and you
will rarely disappoint the patient.
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Title: Go Across the Ocean or a Few States Over?
Topic: Health Care
Discussed by Dr. Keith Smith
with Surgery Center of Oklahoma
Part 2 of 2
There is a big trend
happening right now involving people traveling thousands and thousands of miles
to a foreign country to receive cheaper medical care. Why do that
when you can simply travel to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma?
Dr. Keith Smith and his medical staff have been providing cheaper since 1988.
But don’t let the word “cheaper” fool you. These are top of their field surgeons
and doctors who left their lucrative practices in order to put you - the patient
- first.
But how do they do it?
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March 25, 2013
Title: Is The FDA Fulfilling its Responsibility?
Topic: Food and Drug Administration
Discussed by Dr. Keith Smith
with Surgery Center of Oklahoma
Part 1 of 2
Recently, on national television, the FDA Commissioner stated that they, the
FDA, cannot do their job protecting the public health by ensuring the safety,
efficacy, and security of drugs consumed by Americas.
Yes, the FDA Commissioner actually admitted they stink at their job.
The FDA owns its own labs and does its own testing on drugs submitted to them
for approval. But what about generic drugs? How are they tested?
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Title: Part 2 of 2
Topic: Food and Drug Administration
Discussed by Dr. Keith Smith
with Surgery Center of Oklahoma
The current topic today with Dr.
Keith Smith about a case pending in the US Supreme Court: Mutual Pharmaceutical
v. Bartlett.
Karen Bartlett is now legally blind due to a reaction from taking sulindac, a
generic drug prescribed for shoulder pain.
In 2011, the US Supreme Court ruled that generic drug companies have NO
RESPONSIBILITY to update their warning labels with new or undisclosed risks. How
is this even legal?
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January 3, 2013
Title: Is Obamacare Just an Insurance Card?
Topic: Obamacare
Discussed by Dr. Keith Smith
with Surgery Center of Oklahoma
Part 1 of 4
Beginning in 2014, all American citizens will need to certify to the IRS that they have acceptable health insurance thanks to Obamacare.
And we all know what happens if you don’t have health insurance: you get fined. Dr. Keith Smith with the Surgery Center of Oklahoma shares some little known facts in this first segment.
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Title: Part 2 of 4
Topic: Obamacare
Discussed by Dr. Keith Smith
with Surgery Center of Oklahoma
Is Obamacare really as good as it claims to be? Dr. Keith Smith tells people to that no one has the “right” to healthcare, just as people don’t have the “right” to be robbed or enslaved.
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Title: Part 3 of 4
Topic: Obamacare
Discussed by Dr. Keith Smith
with Surgery Center of Oklahoma
It’s no secret that many health care providers are not super fond of Obamacare.
When it becomes more and more difficult to actually help and care for their patients, Dr. Keith Smith believes many doctors will leave the “government system” and request that their patients pay cash. How much are you willing to pay to get quicker access to health care services?
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Title: Part 4 of 4
Topic: Obamacare
Discussed by Dr. Keith Smith
with Surgery Center of Oklahoma
Dr. Keith Smith co-founded The Surgery Center of Oklahoma as an outpatient surgery center in 1997 and is now co-owned by 40 of the top physicians and surgeons in Oklahoma.
Check out their services and pricing at www.surgerycenterok.com.
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December 5, 2012
Title: Is Obamacare Just an Insurance Card?
Topic: Obamacare
Discussed by Dr. Keith Smith
with Surgery Center of Oklahoma
Part 1 of 4
Beginning in 2014, all American citizens will need to certify to the IRS that they have acceptable health insurance thanks to Obamacare.
And we all know what happens if you don’t have health insurance: you get fined. Dr. Keith Smith with the Surgery Center of Oklahoma shares some little known facts in this first segment.
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Title: Part 2 of 4
Topic: Obamacare
Discussed by Dr. Keith Smith
with Surgery Center of Oklahoma
Is Obamacare really as good as it claims to be? Dr. Keith Smith tells people to that no one has the “right” to healthcare, just as people don’t have the “right” to be robbed or enslaved.
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Title: Part 3 of 4
Topic: Obamacare
Discussed by Dr. Keith Smith
with Surgery Center of Oklahoma
It’s no secret that many health care providers are not super fond of Obamacare.
When it becomes more and more difficult to actually help and care for their patients, Dr. Keith Smith believes many doctors will leave the “government system” and request that their patients pay cash. How much are you willing to pay to get quicker access to health care services?
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Title: Part 4 of 4
Topic: Obamacare
Discussed by Dr. Keith Smith
with Surgery Center of Oklahoma
Dr. Keith Smith co-founded The Surgery Center of Oklahoma as an outpatient surgery center in 1997 and is now co-owned by 40 of the top physicians and surgeons in Oklahoma.
Check out their services and pricing at www.surgerycenterok.com.
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November 27, 2012
Title: Surgery Center of OK - Affordable, Effective, Terry Lowry Approved.
Topic: Health Care
Discussed by Dr. Keith Smith
with Surgery Center of Oklahoma
Part 1 of 3
What initiative did you take three years ago that was considered to be
radical in the health care industry? Why should people who need surgeries check
out the Surgery Center of Oklahoma? What does real competition lead to?
The Surgery Center of Oklahoma is a 32,535 square foot, state-of-the-art
multispecialty facility in Oklahoma City, owned and operated by approximately 40
of the top surgeons and anesthesiologists in central Oklahoma. The facility has
been accredited by the AAAHC since 1998 without interruption and has annually
provided care to thousands of patients.
If you have a high deductible or are part of a self-insured plan at a large
company, you owe it to yourself or your business to take a look at our facility
and pricing which is listed on this site. If you are considering a trip to a
foreign country to have your surgery, you should look here first. Finally, if
you have no insurance at all, this facility will provide quality and pricing
that we believe are unmatched.
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Title: Part 2 of 3
Topic: Health Care
Discussed by Dr. Keith Smith
with Surgery Center of Oklahoma
It is no secret to anyone that
the pricing of surgical services is at the top of the list of problems in our
dysfunctional healthcare system. Bureaucracy at the insurance and hospital
levels, cost shifting and the absence of free market principles are among the
culprits for what has caused surgical care in the United States to be cost
prohibitive. As more and more patients find themselves paying more and more out
of pocket, it is clear that something must change. We believe that a very
different approach is necessary, one involving transparent and direct pricing.
Transparent, direct, package pricing means the patient knows exactly what the
cost of the service will be upfront. Fees for the surgeon, anesthesiologist and
facility are all included in one low price. There are no hidden costs, charges
or surprises.
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Title: Part 3 of 3
Topic: Health Care
Discussed by Dr. Keith Smith
with Surgery Center of Oklahoma
The pricing outlined
on this website is not a teaser, nor is it a bait-and-switch ploy.
It is the actual price you will pay. They can offer these prices because they
are completely physician-owned and managed. They control every aspect of the
facility from real estate costs, to the most efficient use of staff, to the
elimination of wasteful operating room practices that non-profit hospitals have
no incentive to curb. They are truly committed to providing the best quality
care at the lowest possible price.
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November 7, 2012
Title: Uninsured, Healthcare Reform, and Economic Myths
Topic: Health Care
Discussed by Dr. Keith Smith
with Surgery Center of Oklahoma
Are there really 18,000 plus deaths each year because people lack health insurance? Why will fewer poor and elderly patients see doctors because of Medicare/Medicaid?
Of the 1.5 million individual bankruptcies declared every year, an average of 62% involved medical bills and nearly 78% of those filing for medical bill reasons had insurance. These people had coverage, but for some reason their insurance didn't pay enough or the service was denied altogether. Is Obama going to put an end to this?
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September 10, 2012
Title: Obamacare To A Single Payer System - Is That The Long Term Goal Of The Central Planners?
Topic: Obamacare
Discussed by Dr. Keith Smith
with Surgery Center of Oklahoma
Part 1 of 4
Is the "deliverability" of health care in America beginning to break down? Is that why our central planners are pushing Obamacare?
Was Obamacare a bill written NOT to succeed but to intentionally make the American people fail? What is the tactic "incrementalism" all about?
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Title: Part 2 of 4
Topic: Obamacare
Discussed by Dr. Keith Smith
with Surgery Center of Oklahoma
What countries around the world have single payer systems? Do you know many people who travel from America to Canada to get medical services? Why?
Why would somebody from Canada or Europe come to your surgery center in Oklahoma City to be worked on?
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Title: Part 3 of 4
Topic: Obamacare
Discussed by Dr. Keith Smith
with Surgery Center of Oklahoma
In America, do we have a problem with individuals being able to obtain health insurance? Does having insurance mean people will receive care?
In America, do we need the government to come in and control health insurance and health care? Haven't they done a great job up to this point?
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Title: Part 4 of 4
Topic: Obamacare
Discussed by Dr. Keith Smith
with Surgery Center of Oklahoma
From spine to orthopedic surgery, why do you post your costs for all of your procedures online.
Do people come to you who have insurance? Do people come to you who don't have insurance? Do you have people come to you from other countries?
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August 23, 2012
Title: What Does "Free Market" Mean in Orwellian Newspeak?
Topic: Health Care
Discussed by Dr. Keith Smith
with Surgery Center of Oklahoma
Part 1 of 4
What DOES the "Free Market" mean in Orwellian Newspeak?
Are physicians across America fleeing the practice of medicine? If so, why?
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Title: Part 2 of 4
Topic: Health Care
Discussed by Dr. Keith Smith
with Surgery Center of Oklahoma
Where is your surgery center
located? What has patients coming from across the countries, even from other
countries, to see you in Oklahoma?
Do you think that our officials in Washington were bumbling idiots when they
passed the "unaffordable" care acts?
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Title: Part 3 of 4
Topic: Health Care
Discussed by Dr. Keith Smith
with Surgery Center of Oklahoma
Please assure our listeners that
R.O.F (reward our friends) happens every day in city council, country and state
government all the way to Washington D.C!
Is the best way to control health care costs to control the wages of doctors?
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Title: Part 4 of 4
Topic: Health Care
Discussed by Dr. Keith Smith
with Surgery Center of Oklahoma
How is the price of college like
the price of a Ford? Is the price for surgery set in stone?
Tell our listeners more about your surgery center! Are you prices equally, more,
or less expensive than what others offer around you?
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August 7, 2012
Title: R.O.F Care v. Obamacare - Choose Your Government Healthcare Plan Wisely!
Topic: Health Care
Discussed by Dr. Keith Smith
with Surgery Center of Oklahoma
Part 1 of 3
Will anything that oozes out of Washington, D.C line the pockets of those who
wrote it or promote it?
Which government health care plan is better in your opinion, Republican or
Democrat?
If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con', is congress the opposite of
progress?
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Title: Part 2 of 3
Topic: Health Care
Discussed by Dr. Keith Smith
with Surgery Center of Oklahoma
If one of our listeners
somewhere in the United States needed a procedure, could they come to your
establishment in Oklahoma City and pay a fraction of the cost?
How are the American hospitals and insurance companies acting like cartels?
What are some of the procedures that you do?
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Title: Part 3 of 3
Topic: Health Care
Discussed by Dr. Keith Smith
with Surgery Center of Oklahoma
"But you have to rob me
first either way right?" Dr. Keith, tell our listeners about the Austrians
and their approach to politics! Does coverage mean care?
What is the result of the lack of a free market?
Do humans beings long for liberty?
What is the Unaffordable Care Act (UCA)?
Does a good tree yield good fruit, and a bad tree, bad fruit?
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