Government spending on health care costs in the U.S. was the highest of any nation in 2013.
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Chicken-Fried News: Doctor, doctor
A recent WalletHub list covering health care ranked Oklahoma No. 44 in the U.S.
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Letters to the Editor: November 4, 2015
Oklahoma Gazette provides an open forum for the discussion of all points of view in its Letters to the Editor section. The Gazette reserves the right to edit letters for length and clarity. Letters can be mailed, faxed, emailed to jchancellor@okgazette.com or sent online at okgazette.com. Include a city of residence and contact number for […]
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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 […]
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The federal Titanic is sinking
This is an apt analogy for our nation’s current fiscal crisis. Because of an accounting gimmick where governments pretend future liabilities don’t exist and, therefore, don’t account for them, most Americans don’t know how big the problem really is. The amount typically reported, nearly $16 trillion, is actually only the surface of our debt. According […]
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Oklahoma needs the Affordable Care Act
Sound familiar? Under the Affordable Care Act, states will be given an opportunity to opt into an expanded provision of Medicaid, effective 2014. This provision in the ACA is of vital interest for Oklahoma. It means 200,000 more Oklahomans will be eligible, if they enroll, to receive health insurance (about 29 percent of Oklahomans are […]
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‘No pain, no gain’
How considerate of Republicans to propose balancing the bloated federal deficit on the frail shoulders of seniors. From a April 5 Kaiser Family Foundation report: “According to the (Congressional Budget Office) analysis, the total cost of providing health care benefits (premium and other costs) to a typical 65-year-old in a private plan would be about […]