The Case For Medicaid Expansion

In my latest By The Numbers column for The Edmond Sun I make the case for accepting federal funds to expand Medicaid.

"Expanding Medicaid will provide a multi-billion dollar boost to our state economy while providing health insurance to another 180,000 Oklahomans. We can do this. We should do this. We just don’t want to. 

Across the country Republicans are recognizing the benefits of accepting these federal dollars to care for their citizens. Each year we wait, is another year we are economically and morally poorer than we should be."

Frankly, accepting federal funds to expand Medicaid is not a hard case to make. It makes financial sense and it makes public policy sense. The problem is that our leaders just aren't willing to listen.