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Analyzing and Stirring the Pot: Fight Over Managed Care Medicaid Expansion Is Serious Business and in Fact Did Not Get As Much Enced” Entities Print news for the Heart of Oklahoma. Volume 59, Issue 4 April 2021 Read us daily at www.city-sentinel.com Ten Cents Page 3 Pages 5 Page 7 Page 10 The Special K’s: Two more than Senator Kim David 37th Annual Tree of Life Commemoration Goodwill: Second chances to justice-involved individuals Spring into the First Friday Gallery Walk (April 2) Analyzing and Stirring the Pot: Fight over Managed Care Medicaid Expansion is serious business and in fact did not get as much enced” entities. attention as might have been expected in pre-pandemic Introducing the Clash times. Nonetheless, the big hit- Cast ters came out swinging, char- Blue Cross Blue Shield has acterizing Stitt’s plan as “a been a staple in the Sooner (From top left clockwise) Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board members Kelly Doyle, Larry Morris, Adam Luck and Allen Mc- flawed scheme to privatize the State’s health insurance dy- Call voted 3-1 to grant Julius Jones, who has been on death row for over two decades, a “Stage Two” commutation hearing, state’s Medicaid system.” namic for 80 years. Humana which will take place later this year. McCall was the only no vote. Facebook video screenshot. That’s not all. Represen- Healthy Horizons extends the tatives for the anti-coalition brand in Oklahoma of a group characterize managed care as with 800,000 members na- Julius Jones granted “Stage Two” more than just a bad idea. They tionwide. Oklahoma Complete deemed it a “Health Care Hold- Health (subsidiary of Centene) commutation hearing by OK Pardon up” – complete with a new web- is already deeply involved in site full of familiar arguments. Sooner Select and its Specialty Assertions of a “holdup” are Children’s Plan. UnitedHealth- and Parole Board By Patrick B. McGuigan aggressive, indeed, but could care is the ubiquitous behe- By Darla Shelden no vote. who said that Jones’ codefen- Publisher be viewed as a classic example moth (with long-term ties to City Sentinel Reporter Julius Jones, an Oklahoma dant, Christopher Jordan, con- of stirring the pot, politically the American Association of man who has been on death fessed to the murder Jones is In March, much of the medi- speaking, to smoke out the oth- Retired Persons) involved in the On Monday, March 8, the row for nearly two decades for on death row for. cal establishment made official er side early in an important full spectrum of health care Oklahoma Pardon and Pa- a murder he says he did not “Christopher Jordan spent what everyone paying atten- confrontation. systems, working with more role Board passed Julius Jones’ commit, will now get a chance years behind bars casually con- tion already knew – they don’t As for that other side, the than a million physicians and death penalty case on to a to present the case for his inno- fessing to murder and to fram- like the Managed Care (MC) four managed care organi- health professions, plus 6,500 Stage Two hearing that will cence to the Oklahoma Pardon ing Julius,” said Dale Baich, Ju- plan for Medicaid expansion zations (MCOs) Stitt and his hospitals and care facilities. take place later this year. The and Parole Board. lius’ attorney. “It is unimagina- announced in January by Gov. team selected for Medicaid ex- The high-decibel foes of board voted 3-1 with board Recently, Jones’ defense ble that the state would execute Kevin Stitt and the Oklahoma pansion were characterized, managed care include these members Adam Luck, Kelly team shared new evidence a man given that another sus- Health Care Authority (OHCA). in the announcement press re- state associations: Medical, Doyle and Larry Morris voting of his innocence, including a pect in the case confessed to It was hardly breaking news, lease, as “qualified and experi- continued on page 2 yes. Allen McCall was the only sworn affidavit from a man continued on page 2 School Choice: The Best Criminal Justice Reform the first place, and the way to allow them to bring 65 percent do that is hiding in plain sight: or 75 percent of the country to- school choice. gether around doing the right “Criminal justice reform” is thing. a phrase that means a lot of It’s not hard to find the fun- different things to a lot of dif- draisers in criminal justice re- ferent people. Like the over- form. On the left, they’re the whelming majority of Amer- ones who shout “defund the po- icans, I’m strongly in favor lice!” On the right, they’re the of the right kind of criminal ones who shout “when looting justice reform, and strongly starts, shooting starts!” against the wrong kind. And both sides then evade The sticking point is that responsibility by claiming that Americans mostly don’t agree they don’t literally mean what on which reform policies are they say — a double game that the right ones. allows them to raise money by By Greg Foster In a highly polarized coun- appealing to base, vicious sen- try, political movements have timents and then wash their How would you like to stop to make a choice. hands of the consequences. thousands of vulnerable kids The organizations that want But there are criminal-jus- from becoming criminals? to raise a lot of money without tice reform policies that attract And do it by enacting a pol- accomplishing anything will broad consensus. And there are icy that’s proven to work, and focus on inflaming divisions, plenty more that could attract has consistent 65 percent to 70 keeping us stuck in endless broad consensus with the right Brightmusic musicians Gregory Lee, Mark Neumann, Jonathan Ruck, and Chad Burrow during a recording percent public support, bring- 50/50 trench warfare so we’ll kind of campaign. My per- session at First Christian Church of Norman. Brightmusic is presenting a series of Virtual concerts on the ing together Americans of all keep sending them checks to sonal favorites are ending the theme “Romantic Generation” – highlighting compositions by Clara Schumann and Princess Marie Elisabeth colors and creeds? The best carry on the fight. flagrantly unjust judge-made von Sachsen-Meiningen, as well as greats like Beethoven and Brahms. Photo by Amy I-Lin Cheng. See The criminal-justice reform is to The organizations that want rule called qualified immuni- City Sentinel’s coverage on page 10. prevent kids from getting on to get something done will look ty, which makes it effectively the wrong side of the law in for policy opportunities that continued on page 4 A note to advertisers and potential advertisers Here is The City Sentinel print edition production schedule for next 4 months. May 2021 edition Ad space reservation: Tuesday, April 20 Ad content deadline: Thursday, April 22 June 2021 edition Ad space reservation: Tuesday, May 25 Ad content deadline: Thursday, May 27 July 2021 edition Ad space reservation: Tuesday, June 22 Ad content deadline: Thursday, June 24 August 2021 edition Ad space reservation: Tuesday, July 27 Facebook Photo from 2014 Ad content deadline: Thursday, July29 James Lankford of Oklahoma Page 2 www.city-sentinel.com April 2021 NEWS See us online, and on Facebook and Twitter Julius Jones granted “Stage Two” Analyzing and Stirring the commutation hearing by OK Pardon Pot: Fight over Managed and Parole Board Care Medicaid Expansion is continued from page 1 to Harvard’s Fair Punishment felt compelled to take action Project. Three people sent to after hearing about Jones’ case. the crime multiple times. death row by Macy have al- “You can’t sit idly by while serious business “We are thrilled that the ready been exonerated. people are victimized or bru- continued from page 1 help achieve better health out- Board has agreed to consider Antoinette Jones, Julius’ sis- talized by a system that hasn’t comes.” Dental, Hospital, Osteopath- the growing body of evidence ter, said this was an important given them a fair chance,” said In a brief interview on St. ic Association, Home Care and that Julius is innocent, and day for her family. Middendorf. “This is what it Patrick’s Day, state Sen. Kim Hospice, Psychological, Phar- convinced that any fair and “My family knows Julius is means to be a Christian and David, R-Porter, said the up- macists, Ambulance, and Medi- impartial review of the facts of not guilty because we were to live your values. It’s time to per chamber planned to take cal Equipment Provider. the case will result in the com- with Julius at our house when speak out and to act, and that Julius Jones has always maintained “a measured approach” to a his innocence since he was arrested in Also among the opponents of mutation of his sentence and the murder occurred,” she said. is what many people of faith House bill that seems intend- 1999 for the murder of Edmond resi- managed care: Oklahoma Soci- his release from prison,” Baich “We never got to tell that story, will continue to do when it ed to crimp the Managed Care dent Paul Howell. File photo. ety of Anesthesiologists, Amer- continued. and the truth about Julius has comes to Julius Jones.” plans: “We have several people vis. “They want to know if ican Academy of Pediatrics – Oklahoma County has a his- been buried for a long time. Rev. Cece Jones-Davis, who will work on that – liter- Oklahoma is a place where jus- Oklahoma Chapter, Alliance tory of overturned convictions Now, finally, that truth may founder of the Julius Jones Co- ally a committee – who will go tice and truth prevail.
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