OCPA Double Standard or Not?

   The Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs (OCPA) calls itself a "conservative think tank" which believes the "free market is the single greatest tool in the world for lifting the most people out of poverty...". The OCPA generally translates this philosophy to private goods and services, and even taxpayer funded government services - as a model for private management companies and individuals to become millionaires.
   Public education and our traditional public schools have been the target of private management companies such as Epic Youth Services for quite sometime now, with the full support of the OCPA. The owners of Epic Public Schools (blended and virtual) have become millionaires at Oklahoma taxpayer expense over the last several years (since 2012), yet there has been no public outcry over what some refer to as a racket.
   Consistency of its 'free market' policy for public services has become an issue as of late, as Ray Carter, director of OCPA's Center for Independent Journalism - wrote Lawmakers learn shady management companies could benefit from Medicaid expansion (https://www.ocpathink.org/post/lawmakers-learn-shady-management-companies-could-benefit-from-medicaid-expansion). Ray "Ray Ray" Carter is the former chief editorial writer at The Oklahoman whose wife is Jennifer Carter, the former chief-of-staff for the former state superintendent Janet Barresi. Ray Carter has an unhealthy dislike for our traditional public schools just as his bosses at the OCPA do. In the 'policy' article Mr. Carter laments that "... at a recent legislative study, lawmakers learned the beneficiaries of Medicaid expansion may include management companies that have run several Oklahoma hospitals into the ground." One lawmaker said some out-of-state management companies have simply taken on new names and have been "raiding our hospitals over and over again."
   Someone from the OCPA (Ray Ray Carter) is gonna have to explain to us how Empower HMS (the Medicaid raider) is different from Epic Youth Services (the public school raider). The characteristics of both private management companies are the same, from the 'name changes' to the private acquisition of taxpayer dollars, but the OCPA clearly distinguishes a difference. Can anyone tell us what the difference is?