Topic: Health

To improve Oklahoma’s health, we must reduce inequality (Guest Post: Candace Smith)

By: Guest
January 20, 2016 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Candace Smith is an OK Policy Research Fellow and a 4th year Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma’s (OU) Norman Campus. She is also a research assistant at the Oklahoma Department of Human Services’… Read more [More...]

In Oklahoma, doors to health care shut for working families

By: Elizabeth Armstrong
January 4, 2016 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Elizabeth Armstrong is an OK Policy intern. She is pursuing a Master’s degree in Geography at Oklahoma State University where she also works as a Graduate Research Assistant. Her free time is spent playing with her daughter. Since the Affordable… Read more [More...]

Together, we can stop HIV/AIDS (Guest Post: Shannon Hall)

By: Guest
December 1, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Shannon Hall is the Executive Director of Tulsa CARES, a social services agency for people living with HIV/AIDS.  World AIDS Day is December 1st: a day of remembrance for the millions who have lost their lives to the disease, a… Read more [More...]

Budget troubles rolling back Oklahoma’s gains on health care (Capitol Updates)

By: Steve Lewis
November 20, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Steve Lewis served as Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1989-1991. He currently practices law in Tulsa and represents clients at the Capitol. You can sign up on his website to receive the Capitol Updates newsletter by email.… Read more [More...]

Don’t touch Oklahoma’s Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund

By: David Blatt
November 18, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019
As Oklahoma staggers through an apparently endless string of bad budget years, our investments in education, health care, public safety, and infrastructure that are tied to the annual budget cycle are suffering. Amid all the cuts and all the struggles… Read more [More...]

Child uninsured rate is a health care bright spot for Oklahoma

By: Carly Putnam
November 12, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Some new research highlights a rare health care success story for Oklahoma. A new report from the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute Center for Children and Families found that the United States’ child uninsured rate hit an all-time low of… Read more [More...]

What’s really behind Oklahoma’s rising Medicaid costs (Capitol Updates)

By: Steve Lewis
November 6, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Steve Lewis served as Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1989-1991. He currently practices law in Tulsa and represents clients at the Capitol. You can sign up on his website to receive the Capitol Updates newsletter by email.… Read more [More...]

Affordable Care Act open enrollment: What you need to know

By: Carly Putnam
November 2, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Ah, fall: crunchy leaves on sidewalks, a hint of frost in the air, pumpkin spice everything… In other words, it’s time for open enrollment, the span between Nov. 1, 2015, and Jan. 31, 2016, when people can enroll in or… Read more [More...]

Is Oklahoma doing enough to help returning veterans?

By: Chan Aaron
October 22, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Chan Aaron is an OK Policy intern. He is pursuing an environmental policy degree at The University of Tulsa. He is also a graduate of Oklahoma State University with a degree in philosophy and a veteran of the United States… Read more [More...]

Back on the road to Medicaid managed care

By: Carly Putnam
October 7, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019
During the 2015 legislative session, lawmakers passed HB 1566, which requires the Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OHCA) to solicit requests for proposals for care coordination models for Oklahomans on Medicaid who are aged, blind, or have a disability. OHCA has… Read more [More...]