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Health Care
Medicaid expansion fails to lower hospital prices
After expanding Medicaid, many Colorado hospitals continued to raise their service prices despite the fact hospitals’ uncompensated care costs decreased. They did not pass supposed savings onto Coloradans, but instead decided to build more hospitals and buy out more physician-owned practices.Kaitlyn Finley | April 12, 2019
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Health Care
Three reforms for Oklahoma health care
Instead of expanding Medicaid and increasing demand for government-subsidized health care by adding hundreds of thousands of able-bodied, working-age adults onto the state’s bloated Medicaid program, Oklahoma policymakers should pursue real regulatory reform to allow free-market principles to organically increase the supply and lower the costs of health care for all Oklahomans.Kaitlyn Finley | April 1, 2019
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Health Care
Senate Bill 605 is bad policy, no matter where you try it
Oklahoma should reject proposals like state Senate Bill 605 to further expand Medicaid. Similar Medicaid expansion plans have been scrapped in states like Iowa and New Hampshire due to high costs.Kaitlyn Finley | March 18, 2019
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Medicaid expansion still a bad idea
Senate Bill 605, which passed out of committee this week, has been labeled by some as a “conservative” Medicaid expansion. In reality, it’s just Obamacare Medicaid expansion under a new name.Jonathan Small | February 22, 2019
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Health Care
OCPA statement on Senate Bill 605
After Senate Bill 605 passed the Retirement and Insurance Committee today, Jonathan Small, president of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs (OCPA), released the following statement.Staff | February 18, 2019
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Health Care
Free-market health care shakes up industry
New and innovative Direct Primary Care (DPC) provider models and free-market-orientated surgery centers are shaking up the health care industry and saving patients tens of thousands of dollars on services.Kaitlyn Finley | January 30, 2019
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Health Care
More choices, more savings: Short-term health insurance
Thanks to recent regulatory actions by the Trump administration, individuals in certain states may now take full advantage of short-term, limited-duration health insurance plans. These plans may be 70 to 80 percent cheaper than Obamacare plans.Kaitlyn Finley | January 24, 2019
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Health Care
Medicaid expansion a budget-buster
When Oklahoma lawmakers assemble in February, they will be assured by many experts that expanding Medicaid under Obamacare will be cheap and that the federal government will foot most of the bill. But those experts are wrong. They have been wrong every time.Jonathan Small | December 28, 2018
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Health Care
Experts consistently got it wrong on Medicaid expansion
Health care experts from independent research groups and state agencies wildly underestimated the number of newly eligible able-bodied adults that would sign up for Medicaid under Obamacare.Kaitlyn Finley | December 21, 2018
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OCPA statement on Obamacare case Texas v. United States
After a federal judge ruled Obamacare unconstitutional today, Jonathan Small, president of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs (OCPA), released the following statement.Staff | December 14, 2018