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Published: September 14, 2009
Overblown: Uninsured rate greatly exaggerated
The Oklahoman Editorial
The number of uninsured in Oklahoma , like the demise of Obamacare, has been greatly exaggerated. The president’s health care reform package is far from dead, but its absolute necessity for attacking Oklahoma’s uninsured problem is overblown.

New Census Bureau figures put the Oklahoma uninsured rate at 14 percent, which is actually a decrease from the previous estimate. Using the 2008 population estima...

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