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Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland attended Senate Finance Committee aimed at lowering number of uninsured citizens, as reported by The Oklahoman. She declared that Oklahoma's poverty rate and number of uninsured workers is high, but health care offered to Native Americans has been severely limited by the federal government. The federal government is also stalling to broaden the availability subsidized health coverage for Oklahoma's many small businesses.

Small business owners and employees comprise a large number of constituents in need of health insurance reform immediately. Although employers may want the best coverage for their employees, oftentimes owners either bypass small business health insurance or obtain inadequate coverage in order to save the bottom line. Sen. John McCain- if elected- has proposed associations of small businesses that would purchase health insurance as a group, but the implementation of that plan might be too late for Oklahoma's small businesses.

Commissioner Holland recognizes that when the already poverty-stricken or financially dog-paddling Oklahomans become sick, there may be no way for them to obtain medical attention. She is hoping to draw attention on a national level to the plight of the uninsured and underinsured in Oklahoma. She states her frustration at the inequalities in coverage caused by the current federal health insurance laws.

Massachusetts initiated a reform package two years ago that has been praised nationally, staggering it's inception to ease its citizens into it. Now almost half a million people previously uninsured have health insurance coverage. Although, Obama adopts a similar health care reform plan on the national level, West Virginia Senator Jay Rockefeller expressed doubts that either candidate's health plan would be signed into law.