Oklahoma lawmakers, tribes discuss insurance

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BY MICHAEL MCNUTT mmcnutt@opubco.com

American Indian tribes are interested in getting into the insurance business in Oklahoma, but the state must be willing to treat them equally as sovereign governments, tribal leaders told a legislative committee Tuesday.

“Tribes each have their own governments and those governments are sovereign,” said Robert Weaver, government-to-government health care legislative appointee of the Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma.Read more on NewsOK.com

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