Articles
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Health Care
What's really behind rising hospital prices and insurance premiums?
Oklahoma families are feeling the pinch of ever-rising health care costs and insurance premiums.Kaitlyn Finley | January 20, 2021
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Education, Health Care
Medicaid diverting money from education
A top state official told lawmakers one reason Oklahoma spends less on education today is because the state’s Medicaid program is consuming more and more taxpayer resources.Ray Carter | January 14, 2021
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Health Care
Price transparency will protect Oklahoma patients
It’s simple: When you step into your doctor’s office or go to the hospital for a routine service or procedure, you should know the cost.Kaitlyn Finley | December 18, 2020
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Health Care
Dwayne’s story: A brighter future
Dwayne, a cardiologist in Oklahoma City, has spent his entire life caring for and saving the lives of Oklahomans with heart diseases—a task that became exponentially harder when the Oklahoma government shut down “elective surgeries” at the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak.Kaitlyn Finley | December 15, 2020
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Health Care
Average health-insurance premiums hit $21,000
According to KFF, average family premiums have increased 55 percent over the last decade, while wages and inflation have increased only 27 percent and 19 percent, respectively.Kaitlyn Finley | December 3, 2020
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Health Care
Liberal groups seek to expand government health care, quash private insurance
Earlier this year theOklahoma Education Association and theOklahoma Hospital Association, in conjunction with the Service Employees International Union SEIU, strongly supported and helped finance the adoption of Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion in Oklahoma. This extends Medicaid’s welfare benefits to certain lower-income able-bodied adults.Kaitlyn Finley | November 17, 2020
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Health Care
As expansion approaches, structural Medicaid reform is needed
Due to the narrow passage of State Question 802 earlier this year, Oklahoma will expand its Medicaid program eligibility to certain able-bodied adults beginning next July.Kaitlyn Finley | November 16, 2020
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Health Care
Medicaid spending, enrollment escalated during shutdowns
Due to economic fallout from the coronavirus beginning in March, Medicaid enrollment spiked nationally by 4 million.Kaitlyn Finley | November 11, 2020
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Health Care
Officials: Plenty of hospital beds for COVID patients
Reports of limited hospital capacity for Oklahoma’s COVID-19 patients are largely a product of flawed measurement, not a true shortage of beds, state officials told lawmakers on Monday.Ray Carter | November 9, 2020
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Health Care
How much does Oklahoma’s Medicaid program cost taxpayers?
OHCA is Oklahoma’s second-largest agency in terms of state-appropriated dollars, second only to the Oklahoma State Department of Education.Kaitlyn Finley | October 28, 2020