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Recent Articles

Managed care will be bad for patients and providers

October 28, 2020 // Updated: October 28, 2020

The Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OHCA) is currently accepting proposals from corporations, in an effort to privatize Medicaid and outsource the services that OHCA has successfully provided for decades. Managed care has already failed in Oklahoma, with no evidence to suggest the market has changed since the last attempt. This transition would not only be a significant financial risk for the state, but would likely harm both patients and providers.

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Choose healthy news over junk (Guest Post: Jeff Berrong, OK Policy Board Member)

October 26, 2020 // Updated: October 26, 2020

It is vitally important that consumers be able to distinguish substantive “healthy news” produced by legitimate journalists from sugary “junk news” spread by partisan or self-interested organizations.

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Extending teleconference meeting law before February requires special session (Capitol Update)

// Updated: October 26, 2020

I would not be surprised to see a special session of the Legislature sometime after the election for the purpose of amending the Open Meetings Act. Prior to last session, the act required a quorum of all public bodies to be present in person in public meetings in order to conduct business. Conduct of business

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