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Health Care, Culture & the Family
Oklahoma House committee approves ban on youth sex-change surgeries
Voting only hours after a similar ban had passed the Oklahoma Senate, members of a state House committee approved legislation that would make it illegal to perform sex-reassignment surgeries on youth or provide cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers to children.Ray Carter | February 16, 2023
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Health Care, Culture & the Family
Senate passes ban on sex-change surgeries for youth
Members of the Oklahoma Senate voted overwhelmingly to make it illegal to perform sex-reassignment surgeries on children or provide cross-sex hormones or puberty blockers to underage patients.Ray Carter | February 15, 2023
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Health Care
Price-transparent Oklahoma doctors attracting medical tourism
Early in his career, Dr. Keith Smith noted that hospitals were “constantly poor-mouthing, saying, ‘We’re going broke,’” yet those same hospitals constantly had cranes in front of them due to expansion. And self-contradiction was not the worst thing happening at those hospitals.Ray Carter | December 5, 2022
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Education, Health Care
Stitt: Oklahoma students not required to get COVID vax
Although the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has endorsed adding the COVID-19 vaccine to childhood immunization schedules, Gov. Kevin Stitt said the vaccine will not be required for public-school attendance in Oklahoma.Ray Carter | October 21, 2022
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Health Care, Law & Principles
Child-transgender limits headed to governor
Legislation that supporters said would force the closure of a clinic that provides puberty blockers and transgender-surgery services to Oklahoma children won easy approval in the Oklahoma House of Representatives.Ray Carter | September 29, 2022
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Health Care, Culture & the Family
Senate votes to restrict transgender child surgeries
Members of the Oklahoma Senate have approved legislation that restricts a taxpayer-funded hospital from providing puberty blockers to children or playing a role in child surgeries that cosmetically change the patient’s body to look like that of the opposite sex.Ray Carter | September 29, 2022
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Health Care, Law & Principles
OSMA brief: ‘pregnant people’ deserve ‘abortion care’
The Oklahoma State Medical Association (OSMA) has joined an amici curiae brief calling for Oklahoma’s abortion laws to be struck down, declaring those restrictions violate the Oklahoma Constitution’s guarantee of the “right to life.”Ray Carter | September 28, 2022
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Health Care, Culture & the Family
Restriction sought on puberty blockers, trans surgeries
Oklahoma lawmakers will consider legislation this week that restricts funding to state entities that provide puberty blockers or referrals for transgender surgery to children.Ray Carter | September 27, 2022
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Health Care
Financial challenge from Medicaid expansion already clear
When Medicaid expansion was sold to Oklahoma voters, proponents declared it a no-pain-all-gain proposition. “Free” federal money would rain from the skies and the health of Oklahomans would be restored statewide.Jonathan Small | March 2, 2022
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Health Care
Rapidly growing Direct Primary Care model offers personal attention
We’ve all encountered obstacles to good health care from a system that sometimes seems determined to put roadblocks in our path.Mike Brake | February 7, 2022