Healthcare Issues
Clip: Season 4 Episode 428 | 4m 58s
Morton Health Clinics are turning away new un-insured patients.
In an unprecedented decision, the state’s largest provider of health services to un-insured and under-insured Oklahoman’s is turning away new patients. Morton Comprehensive Health Services says cuts to the state’s uncompensated care fund have given them no choice. Other clinics are facing the same dilemma, as are rural hospitals looking at how they can survive.
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Healthcare Issues
Clip: Season 4 Episode 428 | 4m 58s
In an unprecedented decision, the state’s largest provider of health services to un-insured and under-insured Oklahoman’s is turning away new patients. Morton Comprehensive Health Services says cuts to the state’s uncompensated care fund have given them no choice. Other clinics are facing the same dilemma, as are rural hospitals looking at how they can survive.
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