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Lankford Advocates for Physician-Owned Hospitals to …

WEBCLICK HERE download Lankford’s Q&A from Box.. CLICK HERE to watch Lankford’s Q&A on YouTube.. WASHINGTON, DC – Senator James Lankford (R-OK) participated in a Senate Finance Committee hearing entitled, “Bolstering Chronic Care through Medicare Physician Payment,” where he talked about the importance of …

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Lankford Continues to Stand Up for Rural Access to …

WEBCLICK HERE to watch Lankford’s Q&A on YouTube.. CLICK HERE to watch Lankford’s Q&A on Rumble.. WASHINGTON, DC – Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today participated in a Senate Finance Committee hearing entitled, “Consolidation and Corporate Ownership in Health Care: Trends and Impacts on Access, Quality, and Costs,” in which …

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Lankford Leads Fight to Protect Oklahoma’s Health Care …

WEBWASHINGTON, DC– Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today, on the heels of the Biden Administration suspending Title X family planning grant funding in response to the state’s efforts to protect life, introduced a bicameral bill to clarify that the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) cannot discriminate against Title X grantees, …

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Lankford Pushes to Expand Telehealth Access

WEBOKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Senator James Lankford (R-OK) joined Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) and 50 senators to introduce the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act. The CONNECT for Health Act will expand coverage of telehealth services through Medicare, make permanent COVID-19 …

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Lankford Wants to Keep Improving Access to Health Care …

WEBLankford remains a strong advocate for addressing health care access deficiencies in rural Oklahoma and around the nation. Last week, Lankford introduced his Rural Hospital Closure Relief Act, which would support financially vulnerable rural hospitals facing risk of closure. Lankford announced a huge win late last year for rural hospital …

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Lankford Meets with Oklahoma Community Health Center …

WEBMarch 15, 2022. Lankford Meets with Oklahoma Community Health Center Leadership. WASHINGTON, DC – Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today connected with the leadership of Oklahoma community health centers from across the state to learn more about the challenges they face with staffing and workforce issues, how to best utilize and even …

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Lankford Takes On Children’s Mental Health During …

WEBWASHINGTON, DC – Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today participated in a Senate Finance Committee hearing on “Protecting Youth Mental Health: Part I – An Advisory and Call to Action,” with US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy testifying. Lankford focused the impacts of marijuana consumption and how it ties to mental health in youth and

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Lankford Leads Delegation Letter to HHS challenging …

WEBWASHINGTON, DC – Senator James Lankford (R-OK) is leading the Oklahoma congressional delegation on a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra for suspending the $4.5 million Title X Family Planning grant awarded to the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH).HHS is suspending this …

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Lankford Wants the US Pharmaceutical Supply Chain to …

WEBWASHINGTON, DC – Senator James Lankford (R-OK) joined Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Mike Braun (R-IN) to introduce the Mapping America’s Pharmaceutical Supply (MAPS) Act, which would help the federal government better prepare for future public health threats by creating a …

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Lankford, Colleagues Protect Health Care Workers from …

WEBWASHINGTON, DC – Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today reintroduced the Conscience Protection Act of 2021 to protect healthcare providers, including health insurance plans from government discrimination if they decline to participate in abortions. The Conscience Protection Act also provides a private right of action for victims of …

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Lankford Fights to Protect Rural Health Care for Oklahomans

WEBCLICK HERE to watch Lankford’s Q&A on Rumble. WASHINGTON, DC – Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today participated in Senate Finance Committee hearing entitled, “ Rural Health Care: Supporting Lives and Improving Communities ,” in which he stressed the importance of protecting rural health care for Oklahomans.

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Lankford Works to Decrease Costs of Prescription Drugs for Senior

WEBCLICK HERE to watch Lankford’s remarks on YouTube.. CLICK HERE to watch Lankford’s remarks on Rumble.. WASHINGTON, DC – Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today participated in a Senate Finance Committee open Executive Session to consider the Better Mental Health Care, Lower-Cost Drugs, and Extenders Act, which seeks to …

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Lankford Supports Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act

WEBWASHINGTON, DC – Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today joined 15 new cosponsors of Senator David Perdue’s (R-GA) bipartisan Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act. Lankford’s support brings the total number of senators on the bill to 21. The Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act would recapture a limited number of unused visas from prior …

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Lankford, Ernst Bill Prevents Taxpayers from Funding Planned …

WEBOKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Senator James Lankford (R-OK) joined Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) to introduce the Protect Funding for Women’s Health Care Act, which would prevent any taxpayer dollars from going to the nation’s single-largest provider of abortions, Planned Parenthood.The bill comes as the Biden Administration issued a …

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Lankford Introduces Fix to Backlog Blocking Veterans from …

WEBWASHINGTON, DC – Senators James Lankford (R-OK) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) introduced the Increasing Access to Military Service Records Act to address the backlog of over 500,000 service records requests from Veterans, and modernize the way in which Veterans access their service records. Without access to military service …

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Lankford Introduces Bill to Prevent Medicaid Money from …

WEBWASHINGTON, DC – US Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today introduced the Women’s Public Health and Safety Act, S. 4658, which gives states the authority to exclude abortion providers, like Planned Parenthood, from receiving Medicaid funds. Under current law, states are required to allow any qualified provider to participate in a state’s …

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Lankford Challenges FDA’s Deregulation of Chemical Abortion Drugs

WEBWASHINGTON, DC – Senator James Lankford (R-OK) and Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) along with Representative August Pfluger (R-TX) filed an amicus curiae brief in a case before the US Supreme Court that challenges the federal government’s deregulation of chemical abortion drugs. The lawmakers’ bicameral amicus brief in US …

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