Since the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the debate surrounding gun violence, gun control, and mental health has gained renewed prominence. Last month, President Obama laid out proposals to reduce gun violence which include increasing access to mental…
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Following a year of open defiance and several months of interim study, the Oklahoma Legislature now appears poised to take action on a major requirement of the new federal health care law, the Affordable Care Act. States are required by…
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David Blatt
February 7, 2012 // Updated: May 2, 2019
The Affordable Care Act, the federal health care law that takes full effect in 2014, is expected to provide health insurance coverage to over 335,000 uninsured Oklahomans and reduce the state’s uncompensated health care costs by more than two-thirds ,…
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Today is the one-year anniversary of President Barack Obama signing into law the landmark Affordable Care Act (ACA). Many of the most far-reaching provisions of the health care reform law – including the launch of new health insurance exchanges for…
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The ‘Oklahoma Health Insurance Exchange’ will begin serving as an online marketplace for individual and small group consumers to buy private insurance in 2014. Online insurance exchanges – which we discussed in this recent blog post – are one of…
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Kate Richey
February 24, 2011 // Updated: May 2, 2019
This is the seventh in an ongoing series of posts examining the Affordable Care Act, including previous posts on the Temporary High Risk Pool, health insurance exchanges and tax credits for small businesses. You can also visit the health care…
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By:
Kate Richey
February 10, 2011 // Updated: May 2, 2019
This is the sixth in an ongoing series of posts examining the Affordable Care Act, including previous posts on the Temporary High Risk Pool and tax credits for small businesses. You can also visit the health care reform page on…
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David Blatt
December 13, 2010 // Updated: May 2, 2019
“Is there anyone here from Oklahoma?”
I was at a national conference of health care policy experts and advocates last month when the morning’s plenary speaker, Cindy Mann, Medicaid Director for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, posed that…
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David Blatt
January 5, 2010 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Every year or two, I get an e-mail from my former housemate in France asking me to help make sense of some raging American political issue – impeachment, the electoral college, superdelegates – that is getting regular coverage abroad but…
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