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In the article “What Happens When Doctors Only Take Cash Everybody, Especially Patients, Win,” by Nick Gillespie states his opinion on the benefits of when doctors only take cash as the only form of payment for non-emergency medical services. Gillespie favorably speaks that by physicians only taking cash, therefore removing the health insurance company, allows for the doctors to provide clear pricing on medical procedures. Currently, in the healthcare market, prices for medical procedures are high because pricing for procedures is elusive that no one, but the insurance company, knows what these procedures cost. However, two anesthesiologists, Kevin Smith and Steven Lantier open a medical practice, Oklahoma City Surgery Center, to do business

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