This is the ninth in an ongoing series of posts examining the Affordable Care Act, including previous posts on health insurance exchanges and temporary high risk pools. You can also visit the health care reform page on our website for…
Read more [More...]
This post by Dave Chandra originally appeared here on the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) Off the Charts Blog. OK Policy recently blogged about two unsuccessful bills this session to establish Oklahoma’s Health Insurance Exchange. To learn more…
Read more [More...]
Sweeping changes to the nation’s health care system were enacted in recent years and talk of even more changes continues to reverberate in debates over the federal budget. Central to the discussion and always a lightning rod in health care…
Read more [More...]
This is the eighth in an ongoing series of posts examining the Affordable Care Act, including previous posts on health insurance exchanges and tax credits for small businesses. You can also visit the health care reform page on our website…
Read more [More...]
By:
Guest
May 13, 2011 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Julie is an Associate Professor and Assistant Director of the Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work.
The number of uninsured individuals in Oklahoma has reached approximately 600,000 individuals. Almost half of Oklahoma’s uninsured are between the ages of…
Read more [More...]
In the new national health care law (the Affordable Care Act, or ACA), exchanges are state-level competitive marketplaces for individuals and small businesses to purchase insurance. After winning a $54 million Early Innovator grant earlier this year, Oklahoma was poised…
Read more [More...]
By:
Guest
April 29, 2011 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Jeffrey Alderman, M.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine in Tulsa.
With Medicaid cuts looming and the federal government entertaining efforts to shift the costs of Medicare…
Read more [More...]
The U.S. House or Representatives is expected to vote tomorrow on a federal budget proposal for the coming year that would — among other things — force drastic cuts to Medicaid that would harm Oklahoma seniors, people with disabilities, and…
Read more [More...]
The Tulsa Association of Health Underwriters hosted Governor Mary Fallin and Insurance Commissioner John Doak at a forum on how health care reform would affect the insurance industry. Addressing a packed house at the Tulsa Country Club, Governor Fallin repeated…
Read more [More...]
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…
Read more [More...]
OKPOLICY.ORG
