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Article: Dropping premiums, boosting health care.(Legislature)(A measure passed by the 2005 Legislature makes the Oregon Health Plan more affordable to the neediest recipients)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- August 24, 2005
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Byline: David Steves The Register-Guard
SALEM - After watching tens of thousands of low-income Oregonians lose access to the Oregon Health Plan because they failed to pay premiums, Gov. Ted Kulongoski and legislators on Tuesday lauded a bill that makes the program more affordable.
Senate Bill 782, which eliminates premium payments for the very poorest of Oregon Health Plan enrollees, is one of a handful of changes made by the recently adjourned Legislature when it comes to health care for the poor and uninsured.
Compared with the big expansions of the health insurance program in the 1990s and deep cuts earlier this decade to save money, the ...