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You might be interested in the below podcast if you haven't already heard it: Entrepreneur and Anesthesiologist Keith Smith of the Surgery Center of Oklahoma t
by adolph 5y ago
You might be interested in the below podcast if you haven't already heard it:
Entrepreneur and Anesthesiologist Keith Smith of the Surgery Center of Oklahoma talks with host Russ Roberts about what it's like to run a surgery center that posts prices on the internet and that does not take insurance. Along the way, he discusses the distortions in the market for health care and how a real market for health care might function if government took a smaller role.
https://www.econtalk.org/keith-smith-on-free-market-health-care/ https://www.econtalk.org/keith-smith-on-free-market-health-c...
https://surgerycenterok.com/blog/ https://surgerycenterok.com/blog/
- hackeraccount 5y agoha! I just put a link this to further down thread. It was a great podcast, right?
- adolph 5y agoIt was and I've gone back and relistened to it because it is such an important topic--this whole thread is people opining on how things are bad and how this and that should change--that Oklahoma anesthesiologist is going out there and doing something about the problems he saw in the economic model of medicine. Edit: anesthesiologist replaced surgeon
- dennis_jeeves 5y agoAlso mentioned in an earlier post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27517126 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27517126