STATE ISSUES HEALTHCARE AND LIFE SCIENCE
MEDICAID CUTS The Chamber opposes the Medicaid coverage reductions proposed in H.R. 1, as these cuts would lead to insufficient access to care due to decreases in a facility’s resources (particularly in rural and underserved areas) and impose significant costs on Oklahoma City’s business community. Reduced coverage would shift financial burdens onto employers and employees through higher insurance premiums and increased uncompensated care. The Chamber also opposes any federal action that undermines healthcare reforms enacted by the Oklahoma Legislature to improve population health and address workforce challenges. The Chamber supports state and federal leaders in advancing alternative and sustainable policy solutions that protect recent healthcare gains and strengthen long-term stability for Oklahoma employers, workers, and consumers.
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.
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
TRIBAL AND RURAL HEALTH CARE The Chamber supports the continued development of
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