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Lawmakers: Managed care plan complicates Medicaid funding By: Trevor Brown Oklahoma Watch February 22, 2021 With Oklahoma’s 2021 legislative session underway, lawmakers and the governor will need to simultaneously weigh funding options for an expanding state Medicaid program along with pros and cons of revamping the system that lower-income Oklahomans depend on for health care coverage. (Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash) More than half a year after voters approved a state question that will require Oklahoma to offer health care coverage to more than 200,000 low-income adults, state officials are still unsure how they’ll pay for it. The passage of State Question 802 last June started a countdown for the state to start enrolling newly eligible Oklahomans in the state’s Medicaid program, known as SoonerCare, by July 1.

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