Quote of the Day | January 4, 2019

By not accepting the return of the taxes we paid to the federal government to cover health care — as 36 states now do, including most Republican states — we are just raising the amount that Oklahomans pay by about $1 billion per year.

-Tulsa businessman George Kaiser, calling on Oklahoma lawmakers to accept federal dollars for Medicaid expansion [Source: Tulsa World]

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Quote of the Day | January 4, 2019

‘They made commitments to us about what they were going to do to lower caseloads and that doesn’t seem to be happening. I think that’s a problem.”

-Marcia Lowry, an attorney for the plaintiffs in a class action settlement against Oklahoma’s child welfare system, speaking about the state’s lack of progress in reducing child welfare worker caseloads for the past two year [Source: The Frontier]

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