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It’s Not OK: Oklahoma ObamaCare Medicaid Plan Puts Needy at Risk

By Jonathan Ingram, Jonathan Small, and Josh Archambault

The Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OHCA) has proposed a plan to “rebalance” Medicaid eligibility in the Sooner State. Although OHCA’s “plan” so far consists of only a single page of bullet points, what little that is already known makes clear that the plan would gut the existing Insure Oklahoma program and replace it with Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion by another name. Oklahoma policymakers should quickly reject OHCA’s latest proposal to expand Obamacare and refocus their efforts on improving the program for the most vulnerable.

Medicaid “re-balancing” plan would create a new entitlement for able-bodied adults

Thousands of kids and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Oklahoma are already sitting on Medicaid waiting lists to get the home and community-based services that they desperately need. That list is now at an all-time high, with families waiting an average of nearly 10 years to get needed services.

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