Health Care
Jonathan Small | December 28, 2018
Medicaid expansion a budget-buster
Jonathan Small
When Oklahoma lawmakers assemble in February, they will face pressure to add hundreds of thousands of able-bodied adults to welfare.
They will be assured by many experts that expanding Medicaid under Obamacare will be cheap – in government terms – and that the federal government will foot most of the bill.
But those experts are wrong. They have been wrong every time.
Read the rest over on The Journal Record.
Jonathan Small
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Jonathan Small, C.P.A., serves as President and joined the staff in December of 2010. Previously, Jonathan served as a budget analyst for the Oklahoma Office of State Finance, as a fiscal policy analyst and research analyst for the Oklahoma House of Representatives, and as director of government affairs for the Oklahoma Insurance Department. Small’s work includes co-authoring “Economics 101” with Dr. Arthur Laffer and Dr. Wayne Winegarden, and his policy expertise has been referenced by The Oklahoman, the Tulsa World, National Review, the L.A. Times, The Hill, the Wall Street Journal and the Huffington Post. His weekly column “Free Market Friday” is published by the Journal Record and syndicated in 27 markets. A recipient of the American Legislative Exchange Council’s prestigious Private Sector Member of the Year award, Small is nationally recognized for his work to promote free markets, limited government and innovative public policy reforms. Jonathan holds a B.A. in Accounting from the University of Central Oklahoma and is a Certified Public Accountant.