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Oklahoma Growing Increasingly Dependent on Medicaid
There is currently a debate raging in state capitals across the country as policymakers dispute the merits of expanding Medicaid under t...
Uncompensated Care’ Problem Greatly Overstated
President Obama’s health care legislation, referred to as Obamacare, achieves its goal of reducing the number of uninsured in large part...
Obamacare Medicaid Fight Is a Clash of Visions
Even though Gov. Mary Fallin has said repeatedly she won’t go along with the Obamacare Medicaid expansion, her detractors aren’t taking ...
Medicaid Expansion: Principle, People, and Peril
Joseph Sobran, the late conservative/libertarian author and columnist, loved people in the flesh, rather than as symbols. He was often m...
Markets, Mandates, and the Right Doctors
When I was formally diagnosed as suffering from arthritis more than two decades ago, our general practitioner said I had to see a speci...
If Oklahoma Wins Lawsuit, ‘The Whole Structure’ of Obamacare ‘Start...
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt has filed a lawsuit challenging the Internal Revenue Service’s unlawful attempt to impose Obamaca...
Maintaining Medicaid Could Require States to Cut School Funding or ...
Even if state legislators across the country choose not to expand Medicaid under Obamacare, they might still have to cut school funding ...
Medicaid Patients, Not Uninsured, Crowd Emergency Rooms
Supporters of the president’s unpopular health care mandate tax are now trying to justify it on the theory that those who go uninsured l...
Under Obamacare, Government Power Will Continue to Grow
The trouble with Obamacare is not limited to the unconstitutionality of the mandate to purchase federally approved insurance. It goes mu...
Obama Administration Agrees: Florida Medicaid Reform Pilot Good for...
In original research published by The Heritage Foundation (“Florida’s Medicaid Reform Shows the Way to Improve Health, Increase Satisfa...
Oregon’s Verdict on Medicaid
Americans may be surprised to learn that little solid evidence exists to support the claim that expanding health insurance will improve ...
Projecting Medicaid Growth Under Obamacare
Even before the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the health care bill commonly known as Obamacare, was signed into la...
Coburn Opposes Using Federal Grant Money to Build Exchange
[The following statement from Sen. Tom Coburn’s office outlines the “official position of Dr. Coburn on the plan to implement a state he...
Accepting Federal Exchange Funding for Obamacare: A Dangerous Propo...
Right now, states across the country are trying to figure out what to do in response to Obamacare and its health insurance exchange arch...
Oklahoma Considering Health-Care Compact
Early in my tenure at Oklahoma’s largest newspaper I heard a wonderful story about E. L. Gaylord. Mr. Gaylord was the publisher for whom...
State Government Spending Continues to Climb
Contrary to what you may hear from our friends on the left, government spending in Oklahoma continues to rise, and it continues to outpa...
Restoring Federalism with an Interstate Compact for Health Care Reform
Pushing back against the current overreach of the federal government—and protecting against future expansions of its power—are urgent an...
Why a Health Insurance Provider Tax Is a Bad Idea
Facing a massive budget shortfall in the waning days of the 2010 legislative session, Oklahoma lawmakers passed House Bill 2437 to asses...
Medicaid Fails Taxpayers and Patients
Imagine a government-run health care program in which medical access is severely limited, that is racked by uncontrollably rising costs,...
How Oklahoma Can Respond to Obamacare
Since the passage of President Obama’s unpopular Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), many states have pushed back agains...
