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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
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Budget & Tax, Health Care, Good Government
Free Market Friday: Invention of a crisis
The predictions were dire. Nursing homes and hospitals would close. Pregnant women in labor wouldn’t receive care. Thus the story told by state agency officials and lobbyists for big hospital corporations. The only way to prevent catastrophe was to raise taxes and massively expand Medicaid to able-bodied adults.Jonathan Small | May 27, 2016
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Health Care
It's Not OK: Oklahoma Obamacare Medicaid Plan Puts Needy At Risk
Today in Forbes, OCPA president Jonathan Small, along FGA's Jonathan Ingram and Josh Archambault, explains why OHCA's Medicaid "rebalance" plan would put the truly needy in danger and create perputual budget crises.Jonathan Small & Jonathan Ingram | May 23, 2016
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Health Care
Free Market Friday: Out of balance
As details emerge about the Oklahoma Health Care Authority’s Obamacare Medicaid expansion rebalancing proposal, the most vulnerable Oklahomans, policymakers, and taxpayers should be very concerned.Jonathan Small | May 13, 2016
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Health Care
Out of Balance Study Summary
Jonathan Small & Jonathan Ingram | May 4, 2016