Health Care
Price-transparent Oklahoma doctors attracting medical tourism
Early in his career, Dr. Keith Smith noted that hospitals were “constantly poor-mouthing, saying, ‘We’re going broke,’” yet those same hospitals constantly had cranes in front of them due to expansion. And self-contradiction was not the worst thing happening at those hospitals.
Education, Health Care
Health Care, Law & Principles
Health Care, Family & Community
Senate votes to restrict transgender child surgeries
Members of the Oklahoma Senate have approved legislation that restricts a taxpayer-funded hospital from providing puberty blockers to children or playing a role in child surgeries that cosmetically change the patient’s body to look like that of the opposite sex.
Health Care, Law & Principles
OSMA brief: ‘pregnant people’ deserve ‘abortion care’
The Oklahoma State Medical Association (OSMA) has joined an amici curiae brief calling for Oklahoma’s abortion laws to be struck down, declaring those restrictions violate the Oklahoma Constitution’s guarantee of the “right to life.”
Health Care
Financial challenge from Medicaid expansion already clear
When Medicaid expansion was sold to Oklahoma voters, proponents declared it a no-pain-all-gain proposition. “Free” federal money would rain from the skies and the health of Oklahomans would be restored statewide.