Articles Tagged “Medicaid”
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Delivering For Her Donors
BY SHARON MARTIN How dare you, Gov. Fallin! Do you truly believe that cutting public education funding is good for the people of Oklahoma? You’re a smart woman, smart enough to get elected to the highest office in the state. Do you really think that expanding Medicaid will hurt the people of this state or [...]
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Often You Don’t Need A Doctor
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Theft And Taxes
BY SHARON MARTIN House Speaker John Boehner, in a press conference this month, said that taxes are theft. OK, maybe voting a raise for oneself every year or so is theft. But how about contributing to the education of our children? Is that theft? Full retirement after a few years in office might be construed [...]
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Sequester Cuts Will Harm Oklahoma
The Central Oklahoma Labor Federation is warning that Oklahoma “stands to lose massive funding for education, healthcare and public safety” from federal sequester cuts. The AFL-CIO group also accuses Republicans of taking the “economy hostage to protect tax loopholes for corporations and [the] wealthy.” According to the federation’s news release: A report from the Senate [...]
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Just The Facts On Medicaid Expansion
BY BRIAN RENEGAR There are a lot of misconceptions and misinformation about the Medicaid expansion that, so far, Oklahoma has not accepted. First of all, the approximately 200,000 Oklahomans that are currently uninsured and that would be covered or insured if Medicaid expansion is accepted are not the unemployed! That’s right, it is the countless [...]
