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Health Care
Statement regarding House Bill 2406
Jonathan Small, president of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, issued the following statement today regarding House Bill 2406.Jonathan Small | May 24, 2017
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Budget & Tax, Health Care
The Bogus Budget: Medicaid expanded anyway
Oklahoma lawmakers refused to bow to the demands of the Obama Administration and Oklahoma Health Care Authority.Trent England | May 11, 2017
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Health Care, Law & Principles
HB 1913: A private-sector solution, not government dependence
House Bill 1913 is a private-sector solution for people who have real needs. Let’s hope lawmakers implement this legislation and resist the urge to strangle needed options for their fellow Oklahomans.Jonathan Small | March 13, 2017
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Budget & Tax, Health Care
TSET Billboard Spending Examined
TSET currently uses 92 billboards in Oklahoma’s major population areas. The total budget for TSET’s billboard advertising campaign in fiscal year 2017 is $770,000.Jay Chilton | February 20, 2017
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Health Care
Obamacare Medicaid Expansion Enrollment Is Shattering Projections
Enrollment in previously reviewed states has blasted further past projected maximums, and new data from additional expansion states indicate the problem is even worse than previously known.Jonathan Ingram & Nicholas Horton | January 1, 2017
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Health Care
Free Market Friday: Policymaking vindication
Oklahoma state legislators get a lot of criticism. That goes with the job, but sometimes criticism becomes downright absurd.Jonathan Small | November 18, 2016
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Health Care
Free Market Friday: Saving teachers and taxpayers money
Say you need sinus surgery. Things go fine, but then for several weeks you constantly receive bills for various charges your insurance didn’t cover. There’s a bill from the surgeon, one from the anesthesiologist, an X-ray bill, one for lab tests, and one from the hospital.Jonathan Small | October 7, 2016
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Health Care
Free Market Friday: The dole spoils the soul
Should we add more able-bodied adults to the welfare rolls? Oklahoma lawmakers have wisely rejected the Obamacare Medicaid expansion. Unfortunately, this push to expand medical welfare will return in 2017. Thousands of kids and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities are already stacked up in a very long line waiting for Medicaid services. Medicaid expansion would push them to the back of the line while creating a new entitlement for up to 628,000 able-bodied adults.Jonathan Small | September 23, 2016
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Health Care
Free Market Friday: Obamacare failure hurts Oklahomans
It seems like a long time ago, but it was just 2009 when our country was roiled by debates over what became known as Obamacare. President Obama argued that more government control would create more choices and lower costs. Opponents said the new entitlement program would do just the opposite and, in the end, hurt the people it was supposed to help.Jonathan Small | August 19, 2016
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Health Care
Obamacare Medicaid Expansion Creates Expensive New Entitlement for Able-Bodied Adults While Endangering the Truly Needy
The Oklahoma Health Care Authority has proposed a plan to “rebalance” Medicaid eligibility in the Sooner State. But this “rebalancing” is really just an Obamacare expansion by another name.Jonathan Small & Jonathan Ingram | June 1, 2016