Life Lessons as of New Year 2019

  1. Exercise every single day. Run and get your heart rate as high as you can sustain for twenty minutes.
  2. Eat healthy food (especially blender drinks with walnuts, spinach, banana, blueberries!). Avoid processed sugar of any kind like the plague it is.
  3. Avoid drugs. Caffeine and alcohol are both drugs. The most productive times in life came when I was completely drug free.
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2018 Gratitude

What am I grateful for from 2018?

  1. I am incredibly fortunate to be married to Laurel
  2. Laurel is pregnant!
  3. We were able to buy a home together
  4. I discovered the fun sport of golf and joined the club near my home
  5. The family we bought our home from have become good friends
  6. Past Joel who worked very hard to build the business and life that made the above items possible.
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Outlaw Certificates of Need Con

Price discovery is indeed difficult in the current market. However, the current healthcare market is no where close to a free market.

For example, suppose you wanted to start a hospital that offered price transparency, like the Surgery Center of Oklahoma does. (1)

In thirty-five states and the District of Columbia, you’d first have to acquire a certificate-of-need (CON) from the state healthcare regulators.… read more “Outlaw Certificates of Need Con”

Lobster Dream

I dreamed last night I had been turned into a lobster.

How would you communicate with people that you were a lobster? How would you communicate you needs to live such as salt water at the right temperature, the right food, etc? How would you even get any attention at all when you were in a barely survivable environment?… read more “Lobster Dream”