Oregon Health Insurance:
Oregon health insurance news. Small business, group, family and individual health insurance plans in Oregon. What is the government and the insurance providers doing to make affordable health insurance coverage available to more families.
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Oregon unions and other groups join forces to bring unviersal health insurance to the state with hopes of taking it nationwide next.
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Health insurance for nearly all of Oregon’s children is now a reality, thanks to House Bill 2116 signed into law by Gov. Ted Kulongoskii in Portland. The “Healthy Kids” legislation, along with the governor’s earlier approval of a companion bill, paves the way for providing affordable health insurance for 95 to 98 percent of Oregon’s children within the next two years. The less than 100-percent goal takes into account the reality that some children live with families that move too frequently or that avoid authorities.
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The Oregon Health Fund Board unanimously adopted recommendations to overhaul the state's health care system and provide coverage to all state residents by 2019.
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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.
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Oregon will begin accepting new beneficiaries in its Health Plan.
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In 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.
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Oregon legislators are now back to square one in their quest to make health care affordable for all Oregonians.
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Editorials addressed the defeat of an Oregon ballot measure that would have increased the state's cigarette tax by 84.5 cents per pack to fund health coverage for children.
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More than 62,300 people received health care services from Multnomah county last year, an increase of 3.2 percent from 2005.
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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 without health insurance.
