Category Archives: Free Market Alternatives

Keep Guaranteed Issue – Are You Kidding?

Posted on November 14, 2016 by OCTS1

Obamacare is Dead, Long Live Obamacare! President-elect Trump has signaled that he may propose keeping guaranteed issue for people with preexisting conditions and the Obamacare provision allowing ‘adult children’ to stay on their parents’ plan to age 26.  This is … Continue reading →

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Top Tweets – Fork in the Road

Posted on August 28, 2016 by OCTS1

As Obamacare unravels, the next debate will be whether to continue in the same direction towards single-payer, or about-face and reintroduce market forces into healthcare.  The Truth Squad has argued from the beginning that the construction of a humane healthcare … Continue reading →

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UPDATE Restore Sanity to Healthcare with Market Forces

Posted on June 27, 2016 by OCTS1

Tonight, I announce Free Market Fridays on Twitter, report on doctor-owned hospitals, and finish up with two small items. A month ago, I told you about Single Payer Mondays on Twitter at 10 a.m. Eastern time.  I am pleased to … Continue reading →

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Free Market Fridays

Posted on June 26, 2016 by OCTS1

The Truth Squad has long argued that getting sucked into the vortex of Big Government, Big Insurance, and Big Healthcare is the wrong way to go.  Our mission statement, written shortly after Obamacare became law, reads in part: “the construction … Continue reading →

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Free Doctor-Owned Hospitals from the Shackles of Obamacare

Posted on June 23, 2016 by OCTS1

Under Obamacare, physician-owned hospitals (POHs) are prohibited from expanding while their competitors remain free to do so.  Physicians and their financiers lost millions of dollars when 30 expansion projects already underway were scuttled by the Affordable Care Act.  Only a … Continue reading →

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Americans Defying Obamacare: “Come and get me.”

Posted on June 13, 2016 by OCTS4

Comment: Much to the Obamacare-Grubers’ chagrin, about 60% of the “stupid American[s]” Prof. Jonathan Gruber intended to penalize into buying Obamacare, aren’t buying it.  Many have carefully calculated that the Freedom Tax (a.k.a. Obamacare penalty) is a lot cheaper than … Continue reading →

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HSAs, Not Obamacare, Holding Down Health Care Costs

Posted on April 14, 2016 by OCTS4

COMMENT: Even ObamaGrubers admit that Health Savings Accounts are holding down costs. Imagine that–a free people, getting to save money and control their own health care–freedom works! Too bad the Obama administration wants to shut HSAs down. “HSA plans have … Continue reading →

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Exposing the Hospitals’ ‘Uncompensated Care’ Lie

Posted on December 23, 2015 by OCTS4

How Hospital Bills Have Gotten So Far Out of Hand, and Who Profits Comment:  Dr. Keith Smith, M.D., co-founder of the Surgery Center of Oklahoma, explains in plain language how hospitals’ bills have gotten so far out of hand, and … Continue reading →

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Actually Making Health Care Affordable, in Real Life

Posted on July 29, 2015 by OCTS4

Doing what Obamacare can never do Comment: At OCTS we spend a lot of time showing how awful and silly Obamacare is, how misconceived, and perfectly backwards Obamacare is compared to what America really needs: less government, less interference, more … Continue reading →

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Oklahoma City Now a Medical Tourism Destination

Posted on July 23, 2015 by OCTS1

Comment: Score one for free market medicine! “Oklahoma City has become a medical tourist destination, according to an industry expert, leading the charge for a different method of healthcare delivery, specifically one that embraces the principles and fundamentals of the … Continue reading →

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