Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Glen Mulready is a savvy health care customer.
Services such as in-home care and community homes are funded by Medicaid, which is state administered and funded with state and federal money.
Wayne Greene
Editorial Pages Editor
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Wayne is the editorial pages editor of the Tulsa World and a political columnist. A fourth-generation Oklahoman, he previously served as the World’s city editor for 13 years and as a reporter at the state Capitol of four years. Phone: 918-581-8308
Most teachers are not qualified to teach about Native Americans, and they do not have a curriculum that supports the proper learning of Native American history. Our schools continue to misrepresent Native Americans in front of our very eyes. Rather than recognizing us as living sovereign peoples, they continue to teach that we are relics of the past.
In the order of worship of most Episcopal churches — between the Nicene Creed and the congregational confession — comes the Prayers of the People, a broad intercessory orison that is remarkable in my experience for its specific request — by name — for God's help for the president of the United States, the governor and the local mayor.
In Puerto Rico the Medicaid program is funded with a capped federal block grant. If more people need Medicaid services than the grant funds, there's a problem.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine says America is on the cusp of a new generation of space triumphs
Bridenstine brought a message colored with the imagination of science fiction but populated by the reality of science fact to a Tuesday Tulsa Regional Chamber education forum.
The President of the United States held up Congressionally approved aid to Ukraine for months as he waited for their assurance they would investigate a political rival in his reelection bid. So as Trump played politics, Ukrainians died. Some of whom may have been saved if American military assistance had been in place. There's nothing presidential about this sad story. American and world security demand better than this.
From statehood, the Oklahoma’s Legislature has been gerrymandered.
Unless Gov. Kevin Stitt puts the State Question 802 on a special election ballot or it falls prey to a legal challenge, it will go on the Nov. 3, 2020, general election ballot.
The national discussion about health care has been dominated about access to health care. It's a critical consideration, but not the only consideration.
Economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman of the University of California at Berkeley have gotten a lot of ink recently for their book-length economic analysis of recent American tax history.
Wayne Greene commented on Wayne Greene: Skyler Moore and more than 7,000 Oklahomans have been waiting for years for state help, but will the Legislature come through?
Wayne Greene commented on Tina Bevans: She’s not a “pothead”; she’s my daughter
Interesting question. I asked it myself when she submitted the op/ed. Here's her response:
The legislature did pass Katie’s Law that included intractable epilepsy, but not all seizure disorders. The list of patients eligible is limited under current law. For instance, there is more tha…
Wayne Greene commented on Tulsa World editorial: State poised to be smarter on crime, but not smart enough
According to muninetguide.com Oklahoma's 2016 violent crime rate was 21.5 percent higher than the national median, and the property crime rate was 15.5 percent higher. So, your premise is wrong.
Wayne Greene commented on Tulsa World editorial: State poised to be smarter on crime, but not smart enough
When other states, including Texas, enacted smart-on-crime reforms, their crime rates went down.
Wayne Greene commented on Wayne Greene: With the state on the cusp of another teachers' strike, why is the 'godfather' of House Bill 1017 pessimistic about the state's future
I stand by the column’s fairness too.
Wayne Greene commented on Wayne Greene: With the state on the cusp of another teachers' strike, why is the 'godfather' of House Bill 1017 pessimistic about the state's future
I stand by what the column says, which is accurate.
Wayne Greene commented on Wayne Greene: With the state on the cusp of another teachers' strike, why is the 'godfather' of House Bill 1017 pessimistic about the state's future
When Rep. Scott Fetgatter proposed lowering the supermajority to 60 percent his House Joint Resolution 1050 was attacked by Democrats and the most conservative members of the Republican Party. It survived by one vote but at the two-thirds supermajority level.
Wayne Greene commented on Tulsa World Editorial: Lee School renaming mishandled, but the school district did the right thing in slowing down
You mean, what has he done other than the whole Civil War thing?
Wayne Greene commented on Mubeen Shakir: Work requirements will not work for Oklahoma’s poor and sick
I'm sorry you think I'm ignoring you, although this is the first time you made it clear in this thread that you were somehow talking about citizenship status. About 22,000 pregnant women are on Medicaid in Oklahoma, less than 3 percent of the total Medicaid population. Some of them may not b…
Wayne Greene commented on Wayne Greene: Skyler Moore and more than 7,000 Oklahomans have been waiting for years for state help, but will the Legislature come through?
Certainly in the case of the hospitals, expansion would help a lot, rural more than urban. Less directly so for the other services, such as those Skyler needs.