Articles
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Health Care
With Medicaid expansion, Oklahoma has higher costs, worse outcomes
Oklahoma’s Medicaid expansion was sold on a promise to financially enrich state hospitals and improve Oklahomans’ health outcomes. Five years and billions of taxpayer dollars later, is it working?Ray Carter | June 23, 2025
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Health Care, Law & Principles
Taxpayers shouldn’t subsidize idleness
A new report finds that many able-bodied, childless adults on Medicaid spend much of their time playing video games and watching TV. Oklahoma taxpayers deserve better.Jonathan Small | June 16, 2025
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Health Care
Report suggests it’s all play, no work for many on Medicaid
A scholar at the American Enterprise Institute finds that many able-bodied, childless adults on Medicaid spend much of their time playing video games and watching TV.Ray Carter | June 5, 2025
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Health Care
Indiana seeks work requirements for Medicaid-expansion population
State lawmakers in Indiana have voted to impose work requirements as a condition of eligibility for able-bodied adults added to that state’s Medicaid program through Obamacare expansion.Ray Carter | April 14, 2025
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Health Care
Price transparency bill overcomes hospital opposition
Legislation that would require Oklahoma hospitals to publicly post prices for roughly 300 services has advanced from a state House committee, overcoming the lobbying efforts of hospital officials who sought to kill the transparency measure.Ray Carter | April 9, 2025
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Health Care
Oklahoma’s Medicaid expansion: A bad deal getting worse
Oklahoma’s Medicaid expansion could quickly break the state budget, has done nothing to benefit hospitals, and has failed to improve health outcomes. It’s time to place the repeal of Medicaid expansion before voters.Jonathan Small | March 20, 2025
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Health Care
Medicaid expansion could soon blow a hole in the state budget, Oklahoma Senate leader warns
Changes in federal law related to the Obamacare Medicaid expansion could result in a $550 million to $700 million annual hit on the Oklahoma state budget.Ray Carter | March 3, 2025
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Health Care
Conference offers escape from excessive health care prices
The health care “price transparency” movement originated in large part with some free-market doctors in Oklahoma. A national conference being held April 9-11 in Oklahoma City is a testament to how far the movement has come.Ray Carter | January 29, 2025
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Budget & Tax, Health Care
Oklahoma Medicaid-expansion critics proven right
Conservatives warned that the projected costs were unrealistic, lowball estimates and that spending would quickly surge, forcing lawmakers to divert millions from other uses. We were right.Jonathan Small | September 30, 2024
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Health Care
A look at work-comp loss costs
Oklahoma’s work-comp reforms were having their intended results.Curtis Shelton | September 17, 2024