Oklahoma- Study: OK Could Benefit From Health Insurance Exchange

Oklahoma is one of 15 states that has made the least progress toward establishing a health insurance exchange but also one whose people could most benefit from one, a study by the Urban Institute shows.

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But opposition to the health care law has led some states - including Oklahoma - to do little toward creating an exchange.

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Three attempts to legislate a basis for an Oklahoma exchange failed last year under pressure from conservative Republicans. Gov. Mary Fallin accepted but later rejected a $54 million federal grant to build an exchange. A legislative task force studying the state's next move has yet to release its recommendations.

The resistance by some of those states, including Oklahoma, is ironic, the study points out, because those states have a great deal to benefit from the health care law in terms of reducing the number of uninsured people and reducing the amount of uncompensated care absorbed by government agencies and medical providers.


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