2022 HEALTH CARE PRIORITIES
STATE ISSUES
Medicaid Reform As the state seeks to improve health outcomes and to modernize payment models to incentivize value within the state’s Medicaid system, the Chamber supports dialogue and efforts to most effectively address the state’s total health care needs on a system-wide basis. The Chamber supports protecting the current Medicaid
Oklahoma City-County Health Department The Chamber supports local public health efforts/ responses and the independence of the Oklahoma City-County Health Department. Mandates The Chamber opposes new health insurance mandates and liabilities that will undermine an employer’s ability to provide quality health insurance at reasonable cost to employees. The Chamber further opposes new mandates
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 Insure Oklahoma.
being placed on physicians, hospitals and providers that will increase the cost of providing quality health care in Oklahoma. Network Protection The Chamber opposes legislation which would eliminate the incentive for medical providers to contract with managed care networks and, as a result, potentially frustrate efforts at cost and quality control and ultimately deny consumers the benefits of cost-reducing arrangements with providers. The Chamber further
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.
opposes legislation that would interfere with an employer’s ability to offer affordable health benefits due
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