Mike Mazzei on Health Care

Address the waste, fraud, and abuse in the current system

MAZZEI: The first thing we have to address with health care is the waste, fraud, and abuse that's in the current system. There was an audit done several years ago that discovered $1.6 billion of questionable expenses in Sooner care every year, and unfortunately, nothing was ever done about that. But over in Tennessee, they got to work on those issues, and saved $1 billion. Imagine what we could do with $1 billion to help rural hospitals. More importantly, we must get more doctors in Oklahoma. That's why I will start a physician recruitment program and make it so that new doctors starting their careers in Oklahoma, won't have to pay income taxes for five years.

MUNSON: I have fought for protecting Medicaid expansion in Oklahoma, to ensure that Oklahomans not only have health insurance, but that our hospitals stay whole. And that also includes long term care facilities for our aging population.

Opposes Medicaid expansion; state can't afford it