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Also winning passage on Thursday was a the creationn of a state agency charged with improvin the delivery of health care across the state. The “Healthy Kids Healthy Oregon” bill, which will increase taxe s on hospitals and health insurersby $150 milliobn per year, marks a major victoru for Gov. Ted Kulongoski, who proposede the measure. It faced fierce opposition by hospital who were pacified when their proposed tax hike was Insurers still maintain that the measurde will increase the cost of healtgh coverage for thousandsof Oregonians, by addin g a 1 percent premium to the cost of commerciak health insurance.
By raising additional funds, the state will receive $500 million in unclaimed federal healtycare dollars. The second bill, whichy allocates two-year funding of $3 million from the state’s generap fund, creates the Oregon Healthu Authority to oversee existing state programs that touch on health The new state agency is charged with establishing healtn industry cost control measures and with promoting healthb care reform at a national Both bills now head to the governorr forhis signature.
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