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O-CHIP: Oklahoma's Comprehensive Health Independence Plan

For years groups across the state have toyed with ideas and programs to help cure the health care system in Oklahoma. Some have been successful while most just make the problem more complicated.

This week OCPA is releasing an intensive study that seeks to address this issue and offer guidelines to fixing the problem. O-CHIP recognizes that our health care system works best when everyone has health insurance or other non-governmental means to pay for care.

It addresses these concerns by (1) dramatically deregulating the health insurance market and (2) providing assistance for low-income individuals by helping them buy insurance.

The read OCPA's proposal in full CLICK HERE!

Earmarks near $15 billion
By The Associated Press

So much for trimming the pork.

The practice of decorating legislation with billions of dollars in pet projects and federal contracts is thriving on Capitol Hill -- despite public outrage that helped flip control of Congress two years ago.

More than 11,000 of those "earmarks," worth nearly $15 billion in all, were slipped last year into legislation telling the government where to spend taxpayers' money this year, keeping them at the center of Washington's culture of money, influence and politics. Now comes an election-year encore.

An examination of many of those earmarks by The Associated Press and two dozen newspapers participating in a project sponsored by the Associated Press Managing Editors found much greater disclosure since 2006 but no end to what has become ingrained behavior in Congress. READ MORE!