Articles
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Health Care
Medicaid expansion could crowd out disabled
An Arkansas state representative warns that individuals with developmental disabilities may be among the people most harmed, indirectly, by expanding Medicaid to able-bodied adults.Ray Carter | May 8, 2019
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Health Care
Medicaid expansion: Arkansas’ costly mistake
Some Oklahoma lawmakers want to follow Arkansas’ model on Medicaid expansion, but the “Arkansas Plan” led to $1.4 billion in cost overruns and actually cost taxpayers twice as much as ordinary Obamacare Medicaid expansion.Kaitlyn Finley | May 6, 2019
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Health Care
Study: Hospitals raised prices after Medicaid expansion
A new study shows that hospitals used taxpayer subsidies from Medicaid expansion to fuel an “arms race” of building expensive new facilities and buying out smaller practices while continuing to raise prices.Kaitlyn Finley | May 1, 2019
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Health Care
Stitt discusses details, timeline for his Medicaid reform plan
At a recent town hall meeting in Kingfisher, Gov. Kevin Stitt reiterated his opposition to a ballot initiative that would expand Oklahoma’s Medicaid program and said he plans to offer an alternative in the summer.Ray Carter | April 29, 2019
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Health Care
Alternative Medicaid plan may be much more expensive
As Oklahoma lawmakers consider embracing the federal Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion, lawmakers have suggested they may use Arkansas as a model.But experts and independent evaluations of Arkansas’ program suggest there is one major problem with that proposal.Ray Carter | April 25, 2019
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Health Care
Activists’ claims, research, at odds
Activists called for expansion of Oklahoma’s Medicaid program at a Wednesday rally. But many of the arguments they put forth are undercut by research.Ray Carter | April 24, 2019
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Health Care
McEntire discusses longstanding GOP effort to expand Medicaid
A top House Republican told activists attending a Wednesday rally that Republican leaders have been working on a plan to expand Medicaid for more than a year, a goal that has long been a top agenda item for Democrats.Ray Carter | April 24, 2019
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Health Care
Citizens question how personal information was obtained by activists
Organizers of an April 24 rally to support expansion of Oklahoma’s Medicaid program recently issued a release declaring a “broad coalition of Oklahomans” would be involved. But organizers resorted to the modern version of cold-calling strangers to drive up turnout.Ray Carter | April 23, 2019
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Health Care
Statement on Medicaid expansion ballot initiative
Statement from Jonathan Small, president of the Oklahoma Council for Public Affairs, on the filing of a ballot initiative to put Medicaid expansion on the ballot.Jonathan Small | April 19, 2019
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Budget & Tax, Health Care
Amid doctor shortage, TSET spending draws lawmakers’ concern
New data shows the state’s Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust, or TSET, has spent as much of Oklahoma’s tobacco-settlement funds on promoting bars and supporting a boathouse as on recruiting doctors to rural areas. That has lawmakers questioning the trust’s effectiveness.Ray Carter | April 18, 2019