Voters in Portland, Oregon may be asked to decide whether they and their fellow taxpayers will begin shouldering the financial burden for providing health insurance to the city’s elementary and high school students. Gathering Signatures According to the Virginia-based American Medical Student Association (AMSA), nearly 10 million Americans age 18 and under lack health insurance, [...]
The Oregon Health Fund Board on Monday unanimously adopted recommendations to overhaul the state’s health care system and provide coverage to all state residents by 2019, the Oregonian reports. The plan recommends taxing hospitals and health insurers and using the money to extend coverage to the 100,000 uninsured children and about 100,000 low-income uninsured adults [...]
The Healthy Kids Oregon coalition on Thursday launched a campaign in support of a state ballot measure that would increase cigarette taxes to provide health care for more than 100,000 Oregon children that are without health insurance, the Oregonian reports. The group has raised approximately $700,000 in cash and commitments for the campaign, which is [...]
More than 62,300 people received health care services from Multnomah county last year, an increase of 3.2 percent from 2005. Forty-five percent of clients had no health insurance, compared with 41 percent in FY 2005. One-half of all clients were children ages 18 and under. Lillian Shirley, Multnomah County Health Department Director states, ” As [...]
Two editorials on Thursday addressed the defeatof an Oregon ballot measure that would have increased the state’scigarette tax by 84.5 cents per pack to fund health coverage forchildren in families with incomes up to 300% of the federal povertylevel. Summaries of the editorials appear below. New York Times:The defeat of the Oregon children’s health measure [...]
Oregon legislators are now %26quot;back to square one in their quest to makehealth care affordable for all Oregonians%26quot; after voters on Tuesday rejecteda ballot measure that would have increased the state’s tobacco tax topay for health care for more than 90,000 uninsured children and about10,000 uninsured adults, the Oregonian reports. The measure would have generated [...]
In early November, Oregon voters provided an unusual opportunity to find out what voters think about a legislative proposal being considered in Congress in regard to providing affordable health insurance to children in Oregon. When asked about raising state cigarette taxes to add more children to publicly funded health coverage, Oregon voters rejected the plan [...]
Oregon in March — for the first time inmore than three years — will begin accepting new beneficiaries in its Oregon Health Plan, the Oregonian reports. The state will use alottery system to enroll 2,000 eligible applicants per month for 11 months. Thenew enrollment will not expand the program but will fill positions lost toattrition [...]
