Fortress and Frontier: Price Transparency in Healthcare
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In this sixth installment of the Fortress and Frontier series on Discourse Magazine Podcast, Robert Graboyes, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, speaks with Dr. Keith Smith about his innovative pricing strategy at the Surgical Center of Oklahoma and the economic theory behind those pricing decisions. Smith founded the Surgery Center of Oklahoma, where he works as an anesthesiologist. He is also co-founder of the Free Market Medical Association, whose mission is to promote transparency in healthcare and accelerate the speed and growth of the free market healthcare revolution.
Previous installments of the Fortress and Frontier series include two conversations between Robert Graboyes and Temple Grandin. The first can be found here, and the second can be found here. The third installment is a conversation with Pradheep Shanker on COVID-19 data. The fourth is a discussion with Devi Shetty on India’s Narayana hospital system and innovations in healthcare. The fifth talk with Eric Topol is about medicine’s slow progress and machine learning in healthcare.
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