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Oh, they’re still here
The state extended the early renewal deadline on policies to Nov. 30, 2014. This move allows more time to ACA requirement, also known as Obamacare. Earlier deadlines have been targeted as the reason other states have seen a surge in cancellations, Tulsa World reported. Only about 2.5 percent of the state’s population buys insurance on […]
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Contraception empowers women
It was nearly half a century before the United States Supreme Court, in the landmark 1965 opinion Griswold v. Connecticut, overturned bans on the sale of contraception to married women. Seven years later, the Supreme Court would recognize this same right on behalf of unmarried women. More recently, the Obama administration, under the Affordable Care […]
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Give peace a chance?
First, it was Tom Coburn, R- Muskogee, with his denouncement of Republican efforts to gut the Affordable Care Act (a law they’ve tried — and failed — to overturn a whopping 40 times). Now it’s Jim Inhofe, R-Tulsa, who is taking an unlikely stance by opposing U.S. force in the Syrian conflict. But it’s not […]
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Flatlined
Hundreds of Oklahomans in need of free dental care packed the Oklahoma Mission of Mercy in Lawton last month. Photo: Clifton Adcock On a cold February evening at the Comanche County Fairgrounds in Lawton, a steady stream of people entered the building and walked between the cattle gates erected on either side herding them to […]