Tagged: Dr. Jeffrey Alderman (OU-Tulsa School of Community Medicine)

StudioTulsa
6:31 pm
Tue July 24, 2012

How Might Certain Aspects of the Affordable Care Act Play Out in Oklahoma?

Aired on Tuesday, July 24th.

The decision last month by the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the Affordable Car Act (or ACA) has opened up new avenues of opposition --- or, as some states would have it, new grounds on which to reject the law. In its momentous decision, the Court said basically that any state could opt out of the law's expansion of Medicaid with no penalties to its existing programs. Under the ACA, the federal government will help states expand their coverage of Medicaid patients to 133% of the poverty line.

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