Friday, March 28th, Julianne Romanello was our guest on the ROPE Report podcast to talk about REAL ID and the biometric identification methods the government is using to track US citizens in the name of safety. I suggest you watch the full video on our YouTube and Rumble channels, but I’ll include a lot of information in this blog post for you to (hopefully) read and share.
The one thing I want to stress right now is that, the whole, “they’re already doing it right now what are we going to do to stop them” mentality HAS TO END. We human individuals are given BY GOD the ability to think and reason and as long as we can do that, we can effect what happens to us. It may not be easy, but in the end, it will be worth it to stop the government from surveilling our every move. Toward that end, you must be EDUCATED about what is happening and this is the beginning of our attempt to start you on the road toward education on REAL and biometric ID.
In this video clip with Julianne, she tells us that, right now, citizens are not getting the REAL ID and it’s becoming hard for the government to institute it among men (sorry…lol). This is going to be the point at which we have to stop it OR become engrossed in a global biometric digital ID system.
In the clip below, Julianne talks about the biggest problem we have right now – UNEDUCATED ELECTED OFFICIALS! If you are concerned that ‘they’re already doing this’, the best way to get our foot in the door to stop it is to TELL OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS WHAT’S GOING ON AND WHY WE DON’T WANT REAL TIME/FULL TIME DIGITAL BIOMETRIC SURVEILLANCE. Don’t wait. Share this information with your Senator and Representative and educate and involve them. It’s the only way to get any headway on the issue.
Here is an information sheet that was put together a number of years ago in Oklahoma by a group called OK-SAFE. Though it’s an older document it’s a great primer on the topic. Please read it and share it.
This is another article – longer – but great in terms of learning about REAL ID.
One last thing. If you really want to know exactly what the government is expecting to do read the document below. If that doesn’t scare you, I’m honestly not sure what to say. Please, add this to your list of things we IMMEDIATELY need to stop now and get education today.
Carolyn McLarty was our guest, Friday, March 7th. She has worked with the Oklahoma Republican Party where she was the State Committee Woman for 12 years, but she’s also worked with Eagle Forum, a citizen lobbying group begun in the 1970’s by Phyllis Schlafly of ERA fame. Check out the full video, here on YouTube and also on Rumble.
This year, Carolyn is working to ramp up Oklahoma’s Eagle Forum group again. This is great news.
Over the years, I’ve met so many people who want to get involved with ‘politics’, but don’t know how to begin. I saw COVID wake people up to the realization that other people were running their lives, and that those people were in our Government. Many of those newly-awakened decided they wanted to get their lives back by getting involved beyond just posting angry screeds to social media and yelling at the television. Now, with the influx of the green agenda and serious issues like eminent domain coming to the forefront of their everyday lives, lots of people are getting interested in legislation and who is representing them in the state and Washington, D.C.. Unfortunately, since Oklahoma quit teaching civics long ago, many of them aren’t quite sure how to do that.
I’ve known Carolyn many years. She was active in the Common Core fight and provided so much guidance and help toward finally getting that repealed.
On Friday she gave a bit of a breakdown on things that Citizen Lobbyists should do.
She even shared with us a poem she’d written about lobbying:
If you’re interested in getting more information on lobbying from Carolyn – and/or helping her get Eagle Forum back up and going again, please email her! She’d LOVE to hear from you – carolyn.eagleforumok@gmail.com.
One of our favorites – Julianne Romanello – was on with Michael and I last Friday (1.24.25). As usual, the conversation was stimulating and thought provoking.
Technology changes rapidly and concerningly, the way we use our money is changing rapidly as well. Michael is very involved in crypto currency and as such, pays close attention to what is going on in the world of digital currency. Between he and Julianne, our audience that morning got a real education. Don’t worry, if you missed us live, you can find the full video on our YouTube and Rumble channels.
And, in case you missed it, here’s a clip from the show where Michael and Julianne are talking about how Americans will get pulled into the digital currency model. This is kind of scary actually, but, we here at ROPE Report operate on the ideal that KNOWLEDGE IS POWER! Watch and share!
You may watch even just that section of our show with Julianne and, like me, start getting concerned that all our paper money will suddenly go away and we’re left with controllable currency. If so, watch the clip below where we talk about some ways in which Oklahomans (Americans) can fight back against the digital currency ship…
So, did you notice that one way Julianne tells us that we can help ourselves is by understanding what digital currency is in a more thorough way? Look up ‘stable coin‘. What is that? What’s the difference between that and Crypto currency? What is Tether? What is Circle? The more we know about these things, the harder it will be for a lobbyist or legislator to put one over on us! I’ve linked pages to the terms so you can go right to where you can read all about them!
Truly, the best thing we can do is stay engaged and when confronted with legislation that could change the way we use money in America or Oklahoma, we say, NO NO NO NO NO!
So, once again, we’ve put this issue right back in YOUR lap! We’re here to help educate you, but so much of the changes we need to prevent have to be done by EACH ONE OF US in order to make an impact. So…get educated, stay informed on legislation and what is happening in the state and speak out when we need to say, “NO!”
PS: You might watch the rant Michael went on about Howard Lutnik – who was being considered by President Trump for Commerce Secretary. You can find that on our YouTube channel here.
Families who need health care the most in Oklahoma – foster and adoptive families and those in low income brackets – are having an impossible time getting it since our previous system – SoonerCare – was uprooted to implement a managed care system – SoonerSelect – but how did we get here and what do we do?
HOW DID WE GET HERE?
In 2020, Oklahomans decided (by a very narrow vote on SQ802 and although they had rejected Medicaid expansion as far back as 2016) to provide Medicaid to 200,000 more people in the state than were being served at the time. In bi-partisan opposition – that included Governor Stitt – it was argued that making more Oklahomans eligible for Medicaid would cost Oklahoma tax payers millions of dollars at a time when Oklahoma’s budget was in the red and that patients would receive significantly worse care on a system which would become overburdened by costs and bureaucracy.
Millions and millions of dollars were devoted to convincing Oklahomans to vote ‘Yes’ on the measure by the ideological left and the Hospital Association – the members of which stood to receive federal and state dollars for treating Oklahoma Medicaid patients. Because millions in one-time federal funds were available to help start managed care via President Obama’s Affordable Care Act (dubbed ObamaCare), proponents of the question argued that Oklahoma would be turning away millions in federal funding because of partisan disdain for the HCA and disadvantaging from health care those already financially disadvantaged.
October of 2020, The Oklahoma Health Care Authority (HCA) put together an RFP (Request for Proposals) to institute a ‘managed care’ system in place of the current SoonerCare program.
January 2021, Governor Stitt announced that he would create a new managed care plan for Oklahoma’s Medicaid patients called SoonerSelect. During that month, the HCA awarded 2.2 billion dollars worth of contracts to four companies for administration of SoonerSelect – Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Complete Health (aka Centene), Humana Health Horizons and UnitedHealthcare, though the Oklahoma legislature – the voice of the people – was never consulted on either the RFP, or the selection of the insurance managers.
During early 2021, Oklahoma Health Care officials were told the state would also qualify for approximately 520 million dollars in Federal funds under the American Rescue Plan Act (instituted to ‘help’ Americans with the burgeoning costs of everything during the ‘pandemic’) to help the expansion of the Medicaid program along for two years.
March 25th, 2021, several associations representing various Oklahoma medical providers filed a lawsuit against the state arguing that SQ802 didn’t allow the OHCA to award contracts for SoonerSelect to private insurance companies.
Meanwhile – though the legislature hadn’t gone into the 2021 session believing Oklahoma would institute Medicaid expansion – SB131 was created to put “guard rails” on the creation of a policy should it be brought to the legislature. SB131 was meant to prevent managed care administration of the SoonerSelect program because the legislature preferred – overwhelmingly – for the OHCA to administrate the expansion directly (as it had done with the SoonerCare program) without allowing private insurance organizations to serve as middle men between the HCA and the provider. The bill became law without Governor Stitt’s signature.
Consequently, the 2021 legislative session ended without passage of any specific legislation regarding the SoonerSelect program.
Several days after the vote to table, the ONLY physicians appointed to the OHCA by Governor Stitt, Dr. Jean Hausheer and Dr. Laura Shamblin, were removed – also by Governor Stitt – without explanation.
When the legislature resumed in February of 2022, SB1337 – a 44-page version of the Governor’s managed care plan – was introduced via floor substitute, passed after a very lengthy process, and signed by Governor Stitt in May, all to provide the needed legislation for the change to the SoonerCare system that should have been provided from the beginning. This put many legislators who were against managed care from the start in an unenviable position, as they felt they had to vote for SB1337 in order to provide some of the ‘guard rails’ SB131 was to have provided for a managed care system.
Since the implementation of managed care last year, foster families, adoptive families and others qualifying for Medicaid, have been unable to get the services that they had gotten under SoonerCare.
Several Oklahomans have reached out to us about this, so we called Senator David Bullard – a stalwart against the managed care system – to talk about the issue. We also included Salome Vaughn, an adoptive mother to her special needs grandson, who has not been able to receive services for him since the program began.
In the clip below, Senator Bullard describes what managed care is and some of the problems he’s seeing with the program, especially in RURAL AREAS – patients not being seen, doctors leaving the SoonerSelect program because they aren’t being paid, clinics literally going out of business – including an obstetric clinic that helped to deliver babies in the rural area around Hugo, Oklahoma. Everything so many Oklahoma Republican lawmakers said would happen BEFORE Governor Stitt forced this program.
HOW TO MAKE IT STOP
In the clip below, Senator Bullard tells Oklahomans how they can help stop managed care and revert it back to the previous OHCA-administrated system. Oklahomans banded together to remove a large number of moderates from the Senate and House this primary season, we just need to stand together and demand that the legislature STOP the SoonerSelect program and revert to the SoonerCare system in 2025.
As Senator Bullard said, doctors and PA’s need to send emails to, or call, their Representatives and Senators (find them here at the bottom of the page if you don’t know who they are) and ask them to ROLL BACK MANAGED CARE.
And as Salome said, parents with children on SoonerSelect, should do the same thing.
If you would feel better about it, send emails directly to david.bullard@oksenate.gov, but MAKE YOUR VOICES HEARD! WE CAN ROLL BACK MANAGED CARE, BUT ONLY IF YOU STAND UP AND SPEAK OUT NOW before the 2025 session starts.
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Last week, we had our friends Jana Belcher and Carrie Bertrand from the Constitutional Home Educators Alliance, to talk about some REALLY HORRIBLE bills that have been filed which would adversely effect home education here in Oklahoma.
Below are a couple of video clips from that interview, with captions so that you know what was discussed in each. Bottom line, you may or may not homeschool, but homeschooling in Oklahoma is the freest form of education not only in our own state, but in much of the country as well. If Oklahoma homeschool freedom goes – individual freedom will eventually go too as we’re all funneled into government schools.
If you want to read about each bill after you watch the videos, you can find all the information on the CHEA website here.
See what bills CHEA opposes and how to find them on their website. Also, don’t forget the Legislative Impact Day at the State Capitol, Monday, February 12th.
Legislators need to protect the rights of ALL Oklahomans – including homeschoolers! Tyranny for homeschoolers can become tyranny for everyone…
