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Also winning passage on Thursday was a the creatiohn of a state agency charged with improving the deliverh of health care across the The “Healthy Kids — Healthy bill, which will increase taxes on hospitalds and health insurers by $150 million per year, marks a majoe victory for Gov. Ted Kulongoski, who proposec the measure. It faced fiercse opposition byhospital groups, who were pacified when theire proposed tax hike was moderated. Insurera still maintain that the measure will increases the cost of health coveragr for thousandsof Oregonians, by adding a 1 percen premium to the cost of commercial healtgh insurance.
By raising additional funds, however, the stat e will receive $500 million in unclaimec federal healthcare dollars. The second which allocates two-year funding of $3 millioh from the state’s general fund, creates the Oregon Health Authority to oversere existing state programs that touch on health The new state agency is charged with establishing healty industry cost control measures and with promoting health care refor m at anational level.
Both bills now head to the governor forhis
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