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These shortages are most pronounced in rural areas and for providers with the highest levels of training — Oklahoma’s supply of psychologists, for example, meets only 37% of the need, and ...
The budget crisis of the 2011 Oklahoma state budget caused the Oklahoma State Treasurer's Office to estimate that the 2012 budget would see a $600 million budget shortfall. Following the December 2010 meeting of the Oklahoma State Board of Equalization, the Board certified that the 2012 budget would see a shortfall of $400 million from 2011 levels.
Insure Oklahoma also provides a way for individuals who participate in the Individual Plan to gain access to an affordable health care option. In April 2004, Senate Bill 1546 authorized the Oklahoma Health Care Authority to develop a program assisting employees of small businesses, 19 to 64 years of age with either:
The Department was established through the Mental Health Law of 1953, although publicly supported services to Oklahomans with mental illness date back to before statehood: the first facility in Oklahoma for the treatment of individuals with mental illness was established by the Cherokee Nation, called the Cherokee Home for the Insane, Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, it was built outside the city of ...
The Senate plan allocates $5.5 billion for education, $2.2 billion for health and social services and a cut in the state's portion of the grocery tax.
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This "budget request" is then reviewed and analyzed by the Office of State Finance in light of overall state responsibilities, goals, objectives and total funds available. Each year by October 1, each state agency must submit their official budget request to the Office of State Finance. Budget requests can be amended once submitted, however.
The department is led by the Secretary of Health and the Commissioner of Health. Oklahoma law requires the Commissioner of Health to have professional expertise as any of the following: 1) an actively licensed physician (MD/DO), 2) a doctoral-level degree holder in public health or public health administration, 3) a masters' degree holder with a minimum of five years experience in ...