Posted on 12/10/2022 8:20:59 AM PST by DFG
The chair of a legislative task force presented a plan to a panel of Oregon lawmakers Thursday at the state Capitol that would fundamentally change health care insurance in Oregon and create a public system that would provide coverage for every person in the state.
Dr. Bruce Goldberg told the members of the Senate Interim Committee on Health Care that the proposed new program would cost less than the current health insurance system and would eliminate deductibles, co-pays, co-insurance, and other out-of-pocket costs for those covered by the state program.
“This plan removes obstacles that currently exists for equitable care. Everyone gets the same benefit. No longer do some people get some things and other people don’t get other things,” he said.
in 2019. Its purpose was to provide recommendations for a first-in-the-nation single-payer health care system to cover all Oregonians. Since then, it has held multiple meetings and forums, led by Goldberg, to hash out ideas and collect public comment.
The end result of the task force’s work was a 223-page report with recommendations the task force approved in September.
Separately, in November, Oregon voters approved Measure 111, which established a right to health care in the state’s Constitution. But that measure did not set up a system.
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I thought Massachusetts already tried this.
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When you guy insurance, you are a profit center. They have to please you to some degree to get your business. Under single payer, you are a cost center, and every effort will be made to spend less on you.
Crappy healthcare coming.
Note to Oregonians: Want a preview of coming attractions...
Just read the British tabs.
Docs who refuse to see patients in person. Elderly who wait hours for an ambulance. Lousy cancer survival rates. Months long wait times for surgeries, tests, treatments.
The politicians who vote for this won’t be getting the same care you will be.
Because it sucks.
Meanwhile, look at what our masters get...
https://www.opm.gov/healthcare-insurance/healthcare/plan-information/plans/
CHOICE.
I am sick of this culture...just sick.....
I despise 51% of my fellow Oregonians.
Useless sons of bitches, so eager to spend other people’s money while chasing after Utopian unicorns.
Is that the same benefits as congress… you know the ones making rules about what the working class gets. #congressional healthcare for all
223 pages and counting.
Knock knock
Boom boom
Bankrupt it. Won’t take long, with transplant patients — traditionally one of the consistently highest-cost surgeries with the most intensive follow-on treatment — flocking to Oregon. Combine that with Kalifornia’s free slave money, can you imagine the Gold Rush camps along the California-Oregon border with people playing both sides?
The point was, there are some who are more concerned about equity than quality. See what response to those questions you get from progressives.
Vermont and California have passed plans but repealed them when priced.
This can be done, and will be done, but only on a national basis with all in.
Nobody who’s not working in the system now can understand how bad things are. It can’t last another ten years.
right after the steal midterms, they don’t miss a beat
No transplants.
Yeah and bring back $5.00 office visits too.
Peanuts compared to the gender affirming procedures that will flourish.
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