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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
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Health Care
More than half of Oklahoma children on Medicaid
More than half of all Oklahoma children were enrolled in Medicaid last year, according to the Oklahoma Health Care Authority’s annual report.Kaitlyn Finley | October 23, 2020
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Health Care, Good Government
Stitt rated a four-star governor on economy
Gov. Kevin Stitt has been rated a four-star governor in a new report that evaluates all 50 governors on their economic stewardship, but the report warns that Medicaid expansion will make continued financial prudence much more challenging for Stitt.Ray Carter | October 20, 2020
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Health Care
The rising costs of Oklahoma’s Medicaid program
Over the past two decades, costs for Oklahoma’s Medicaid program have increased dramatically.Kaitlyn Finley | October 8, 2020
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Health Care
Why we pay too much for health care (part 2)
Have we stopped to consider why insurance is involved every time we go to the doctor?Kaitlyn Finley | October 6, 2020