This story was written by Jay Hancock, a staff writer for Kaiser Health News, a publication of the Kaiser Family Foundation and was originally published on March 22nd, 2012. For a break down of the issues being debated before the…
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This week marks two years since landmark health care reform legislation, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), was signed into law. While some of the law’s major provisions have yet to take effect, many of the rule-changes and programs that have…
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The United States Supreme Court is gearing up for oral argument in what is sure to be a landmark case in American history – the multi-state challenge to the Affordable Care Act, the federal health reform law passed by Congress…
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For the past 27 years, a statewide network of Area Health Education Centers (OKAHEC) has worked to increase the supply of primary care providers and improve access to health care in Oklahoma’s rural and underserved communities. Now this program is…
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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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This fact sheet and presentation were given to a town hall meeting in Oklahoma City on February 16th. The meeting featured several public health experts who spoke about urgent public health epidemics in Oklahoma, including our director David Blatt and,…
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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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David Blatt
February 1, 2012 // Updated: May 2, 2019
The question of whether to require a prescription for the purchase of pseudoephedrine (the main ingredient in medications such as Sudafed) as a means to help combat the production of methamphetamine, promises to be one of the hotly contested issues…
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Kate Richey
January 26, 2012 // Updated: May 2, 2019
These comments were excerpted from a speech by Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley to a plenary session of an annual healthcare conference hosted by FamiliesUSA.
Our country is now poised through the Affordable Care Act to help millions of American families…
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By:
Kate Richey
January 17, 2012 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Our health care system is experiencing an unprecedented period of upheaval. Decades of rising costs, an ever-increasing share of citizens without insurance, and an aging baby boom generation are putting immense pressure on payers, providers, and patients alike. A new…
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