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Health Care, Economy
Public Health chairman: Let Oklahomans go back to work
The chairman of the state House Public Health Committee, who previously warned the threat of coronavirus was “quite real” and urged Oklahomans to “look at options where they can stay home and limit their exposure,” says it is now time to reopen society.Ray Carter | April 14, 2020
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Health Care, Culture & the Family
Unleash telehealth to fight COVID-19
In the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak, Gov. Kevin Stitt has fast-tracked licensing requirements to help out-of-state medical workers utilize telemedicine. Action from the state legislature is needed to permanently adopt this reform.Kaitlyn Finley | April 14, 2020
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Health Care, Culture & the Family
COVID may reduce health care providers, but encourage innovation
The government response to COVID-19 has threatened the survival of businesses across the country—including doctors’ offices and major hospitals. It’s a trend that could significantly impact health care access for months or years to come—but those changes could also encourage innovation.Ray Carter | April 13, 2020
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Health Care, Culture & the Family
Short-term insurance plans may help newly unemployed Oklahomans
Thanks to deregulatory action taken by the Trump Administration in 2018, many Oklahomans facing a gap in employment may now take advantage of short-term insurance plans.Kaitlyn Finley | April 8, 2020
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Health Care, Culture & the Family
Catastrophic rupture
A cardiologist looks at the policy response to COVID-19 and its impact on health and human flourishingDwayne A. Schmidt, M.D. | April 8, 2020
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Health Care, Law & Principles
Noneconomic-damages fix must be constitutional, not statutory
Any serious effort to reform a state’s civil justice system must include, as one of its core components, a solution to the problem of excessive claims for noneconomic damages, commonly understood as damages awarded for the pain and suffering experienced by the injured person seeking compensation.Andrew C. Spiropoulos | March 31, 2020
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Health Care
Thousands added to Medicaid through expansion already have coverage
As Oklahoma expands its Medicaid program to include up to 628,000 able-bodied adults, one feature of the expansion that is often overlooked is that tens of thousands being added to the program already have coverage or access to care.Ray Carter | March 20, 2020
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Health Care
Many to be exempted from Medicaid-expansion cost-sharing provisions
A top official at the Oklahoma Health Care Authority says Gov. Kevin Stitt’s Medicaid-expansion plan will include substantial exemptions from the cost-sharing and work-requirement provisions that have been touted as the plan’s major selling point.Ray Carter | March 19, 2020
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Health Care, Law & Principles
Coronavirus response undermines case for many regulations
Gov. Kevin Stitt has signed an executive order that waives various regulations in Oklahoma, including mandates restricting the provision of telemedicine, to help address issues associated with coronavirus.Ray Carter | March 18, 2020
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Health Care
To combat coronavirus, leaders cut healthcare red tape
To combat the coronavirus, President Trump and state officials have rolled back burdensome regulations on healthcare workers.Kaitlyn Finley | March 17, 2020