“Devil is in the details”: Oklahoma lawmakers react to Stitt’s health care plan – By Oklahoman Staff (The Oklahoman) / Jan 30 2020
Gov. Kevin Stitt announced Thursday his health care plan that involves expanding Oklahoma’s Medicaid program to cover able-bodied, working adults through a block grant.
Here’s how Republican and Democratic leaders in Oklahoma’s House and Senate responded to the governor’s proposal.
House Speaker Charles McCall, R-Atoka:
“I appreciate the governor’s leadership. He wants to roll out what he feels like is an Oklahoma plan. That is what the Legislature wants as well. We want a plan that works for our people here in the state of Oklahoma. We prefer a plan that is not a federal, crammed-down program, a one-size-fits-all, cookie-cutter approach to health care. I am very encouraged by the initial comments we heard…. We will be looking at those details a little closer in the future, and that will be, I think, a priority issue.”
Senate Minority Leader Kay Floyd, D-Oklahoma City:
“We are open to looking at anything he presents…. We are going to look at it, we’ll digest it, we’ll check the numbers. It sounds like it is a plan that has not been used in any other state. I think that because we don’t have a prototype in other states, that we really need to do a deep dive. I don’t mind us being first in things, but something this big, I’d feel a little better if we had other states that had learned from their mistakes so we wouldn’t have to. But we’ll do what we need to do.”
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