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Health Care
How to Help Oklahoma’s Rural Hospitals
How bad is the situation with Oklahoma hospitals? Rural hospitals are under financial siege and are facing extreme difficulty in recruiting and retaining physicians to the rural areas.Steve Anderson | October 28, 2015
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Health Care
Free Market Friday: Mandate ill-advised
During the 2015 legislative session, Oklahoma policymakers pursued pro-patient and pro-growth health care reforms. The reforms removed bureaucratic barriers for state and education employee health care and protected the rights of doctors and patients.Michael Carnuccio | October 24, 2015
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Health Care
Free Market Friday: Some abuse program for the poor
While accounts of the lives negatively affected by the numerous failed promises of the Affordable Care Act mount each day, an alarming story of abuse of a program (which was expanded by the ACA) intended for the poor has gone largely unnoticed.Michael Carnuccio | September 4, 2015
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Health Care
Free Market Friday: More Medicaid not the answer
Much work is left to make sure Oklahomans can get affordable care. Policymakers have made those prospects better by avoiding the Medicaid expansion trap and focusing their energy on market-based, consumer-driven reforms that increase access and affordability.Michael Carnuccio | August 14, 2015
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Health Care
Free Market Friday: Repeal and replace
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday in King v Burwell that words don’t matter, at least not in federal law. The decision turns the focus back to Congress and the next president, where responsibility awaits for repealing bad laws and making better ones.Michael Carnuccio | June 26, 2015
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Court saves politicians from pesky citizens
Responsibility remains with Congress and the next President to solve the many problems created by Obamacare. Yet with today’s decision, Chief Justice Roberts saves Obamacare not only from itself, but from the meddling of citizens and state elected officials who believed we live in a nation of laws.Trent England | June 25, 2015
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Health Care
A Three-Step Plan to Prevent Welfare Fraud
Fraud of state welfare programs including Medicaid and food stamps is far too common, and the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) has released a report documenting cases of abuse and how state legislators can stop it.Kristina Ribali | June 1, 2015
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Health Care
If You’re So Broke, What’s with All the Cranes?
At a legislative panel hosted by the State Chamber of Oklahoma on December 3, Senate President Pro Tem Brian Bingman, House Speaker Jeff Hickman, and Democratic Minority Leader Scott Inman were asked what could be done to address the problem of "uncompensated care," which is allegedly putting a financial squeeze on Oklahoma hospitals.Brandon Dutcher | January 14, 2015
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Health Care
Policymakers Must Reform, Not Expand, Medicaid
According to health-care researchers Avik Roy and Grace-Marie Turner, Medicaid “has the worst health outcomes of any insurance program in the developed world.” So why do Oklahoma policymakers keep expanding it?Jonathan Small | November 13, 2014
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Health Care
Free Market Friday: OKC a leader in affordable care
Health care is not expensive. What people are being charged for is another matter altogether.Michael Carnuccio | October 3, 2014