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Randy Grellner: “We have major issues in mental health.”

Featuring: Randy Grellner, Republican | Oklahoma State Senate, District 21

Oklahoma Senate District 21 Debate | Robin Fuxa vs Dr. Randy Grellner

Published October 23, 2024 | Video Starts at 03:57

We know because we've had several audits and we need to pull that out, transfer that into rural health care to help Stillwater, Manford, Cushing, and then mental health. We have major issues in mental health. And then we go to oil and gas industry, the key driver of economics in this state. We have to help the oil and gas industry and we have to be innovative how we do it. (03:57–04:00)

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Asserts that there are significant problems in the mental health sector.

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“Healthcare costs are out of control.”
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“Agriculture is struggling in this state.”
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“There's a lot of waste, fraud and abuse in [the state healthcare budget].”
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“We're going to lose our family farms.”
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“In 2014, we put together an urgent care [in Cushing] that everybody said, that's nuts. The town's too small for it.”
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“Cushing is an oil and gas Town, a town that needs services.”
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“They were spending $2,500 for a smashed finger at the ER.”
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“We have good education in this state, but we are funding education.”
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“We're number two in the region in funding [education].”
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“Last year was a treasure trove of, you know, the biggest raise, the largest raise ever for teachers.”
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“Oklahoma is not a poor state. We are a poorly managed state.”
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“There is so much audit waste, fraud and abuse that needs to be cored out of [Oklahoma].”
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“Healthcare access [in Senate District 21] is terrible.”
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“Rural health care is in tremendous strain and infrastructure is falling apart.”
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“There is $1.2 billion stashed away [in the state budget].”
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“In our school systems, they are flushed with cash. The money there was $600 million in there three years ago. Now it's $1.2 billion.”
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“There is a program right now down around Altus that there's been a grant for $25 million to get water down into that reservoir.”
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“Oklahoma State is starting a new program which will be actually be state of the art. And this program will has a groundwater reclamation…”
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“We have to get the obesity problem under control in this country.”
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“Obesity is by far the number one health problem we have here [in Oklahoma].”
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“I have a wellness clinic that's proving we're having success of getting this weight off people.”
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“Ryan Walters was elected by the state of Oklahoma by 57%, which today in politics is a landslide.”
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“We never had informed consent with the COVID vaccines.”
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