Budget & Tax, Health Care, Good Government

Free Market Friday: Invention of a crisis

May 27, 2016

Jonathan Small

The predictions were dire. Nursing homes and hospitals would close. Pregnant women in labor wouldn’t receive care.

Thus the story told by state agency officials and lobbyists for big hospital corporations. The only way to prevent catastrophe was to raise taxes and massively expand Medicaid to able-bodied adults.

Since legislative leaders have produced a state budget, we can evaluate those claims.

The Legislature rejected both the tax hike and the Medicaid expansion. Yet funding will go up at the Oklahoma Health Care Authority, the state Medicaid agency. The sky is not going to fall. How can this be?

Read the rest over on The Journal Record.