Is Marxism the only way to save rural health care? Most conservatives would recoil from such a claim, but some Oklahoma legislators appear to have swallowed it.
The House and Senate passed HB 2048, the 340B Nondiscrimination Act. The bill would lock in and expand Obamacare Medicaid drug policies in the Sooner State, but it was vetoed by Gov. Kevin Stitt. Now some legislators are pushing an override that could enact the bill over the objections of the conservative Republican governor.
Congress began distorting drug pricing in 1990, trying to lower prices within the Medicaid welfare program. When prices went up even more, it tried again, and in 1992 passed the Public Health Service Act with Section 340B. That law shifts costs, imposing what amounts to a hidden tax that Americans pay—either directly for higher priced drugs or indirectly for higher priced insurance—in…
