By:
Gene Perry
January 25, 2018 // Updated: May 2, 2019
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Background
Most people enrolled in SoonerCare who can reasonably be expected to work, do work. However, for the first time in Medicaid’s fifty-year history,…
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See the full list of our 2018 policy priorities.
Download this fact sheet as a PDF.
Background
Oklahoma’s uninsured rate is one of the highest in the US. The effects of this ripple across our entire health care system, driving…
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Recently the Trump Administration opened the door to serious new restrictions on Medicaid by announcing they would allow and encourage states to impose employment and other “community engagement” requirements on working-age adults. Ten states have already submitted requests to do…
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By:
Gene Perry
December 28, 2017 // Updated: May 2, 2019
When it comes to Oklahoma politics, 2017 was one of the most tumultuous and unpredictable in history. The year was consumed by a long, still unresolved showdown over the state budget and need for new revenues, with shifting coalitions, unusual…
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By:
Guest
December 1, 2017 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Andy Moore is the Clinic Administrator for the Infectious Diseases Institute at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, organizer of the OKC AIDS Coalition, and member of the board of trustees for the Oklahoma AIDS Care Fund.
In June…
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Twenty-five elderly Oklahomans lost their home early last week when Wynnewood Care Center closed.
After taking years of reimbursement cuts and expecting more to come, the small skilled-nursing facility in Wynnewood had to shut down and move residents into other…
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This post is by OK Policy intern Lydia Lapidus. Lydia is a recent graduate from George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs with a concentration in International Politics.
Fall is here, and the Healthcare.gov online marketplace is up and…
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Earlier this month, Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Doak testified before a U.S. Congressional Committee that he wants Congress to eliminate Navigators, the community workers who help enroll people in health care under the Affordable Care Act. Doak told Congress that he opposes…
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Next year, Oklahomans will vote on State Question 788, a ballot initiative to legalize medical marijuana. As of 2017, 29 states have approved measures legalizing the drug for medical purposes. We often think of legalization in binary terms — either…
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By:
Gene Perry
September 14, 2017 // Updated: May 2, 2019
New Census data shows the percentage of families living in poverty in Oklahoma increased in 2016, even as the national poverty rate declined to its lowest point since 2008. In 2016, almost one out of six Oklahomans (16.3 percent) were making…
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