Affordable Care Act and Medicaid Coverage

Health law’s expanded Medicaid could halve Oklahoma’s uninsured poor, By Wayne Greene, July 9, 2012, Tulsa World: “More than half of Oklahoma’s uninsured poor people would be covered by a Medicaid expansion that is part of the Affordable Care Act within five years, according to a 2010 Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured report. With some effort, the expansion could cover nearly three-quarters of uninsured poor Oklahomans, the report says. Oklahoma Health Care Authority figures show that some 624,480 Oklahomans – about 17 percent of the population – don’t have health insurance. A high uninsured population doesn’t just hurt the people who don’t have insurance, said OU-Tulsa President Gerard Clancy, a physician and a leading voice in state health policy discussions…”