2025 HEALTH CARE PRIORITIES
STATE ISSUES
MEDICAID REFORM As the state continues to improve health outcomes and modernize payment models to incentivize value within the state’s Medicaid system, the Chamber supports the continued delivery of optimal outcomes by the state’s Medicaid Managed Care Model. We further believe this model is the most effective means to address the state’s total health care needs on a systemwide basis. The Chamber supports protecting the current Medicaid supplemental payments or equivalent programs to our state’s medical schools and their hospital partners to ensure uninterrupted funding for medical education and the other unique services each provide. INSURE OKLAHOMA The Chamber supports continued efforts to protect, preserve and further improve Employer Sponsored Insurance (ESI) offered under the state’s Insure Oklahoma program. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT The Chamber supports efforts to foster an environment that is conducive to further research and will oppose efforts to unreasonably restrict the continued development of the state’s bioscience and research programs. The Chamber will further support marketing Oklahoma as a rising research, product and technology development hub; support start-ups, engage in intentional efforts to attract scientists, engineers, and researchers back to market; and work to retain our premiere research workforce.
CLINICAL TRIALS The Chamber will support Oklahoma’s position as a market for excellence in clinical trials. OKLAHOMA CITY COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT The Chamber supports local public health efforts/responses and, therefore, supports protecting the independence of the Oklahoma City County Health Department. TRIBAL AND RURAL HEALTH CARE The Chamber supports the continued development of Oklahoma’s rural and tribal health care systems and entities that create products, services, technologies and treatments that further health outcomes for American Indian and rural populations. WORKPLACE VIOLENCE The Chamber supports maintaining continued focus on protecting Oklahoma’s health care workforce that is facing increased incidences of violence in the workplace. VACCINE MANDATES The Chamber supports allowing each company/business to determine whether to mandate vaccinations for its employees. HEALTH CARE MANDATES The Chamber opposes new health insurance mandates and liabilities that will undermine an employer’s ability to provide quality health insurance at a reasonable cost to employees.
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