As the Lund Report notes: “The task force released a draft of the report on Monday and will accept comments until the end of the day on September 19. The report will be presented to the Legislature later this month. Under the plan, lawmakers would create a single, generous, comprehensive state health insurance plan that eliminates premiums, copayments, doctor office fees, deductibles, and coinsurance, and is funded by federal revenues, plus $22 billion in new taxes. If approved by the Legislature in 2023, the health insurance proposal would be put to a public referendum, according to Oregon Sen. James Manning, D-Eugene, one of the lawmakers sponsoring the proposal.”
The State Government, which is the most wasteful, inefficient, and dysfunctional health care entity in Oregon, now wants to take complete control over health care by banning private insurance and private employee health insurance policies and completely take it over.
From the draft report, here is the new government bureaucracy that will make health care free in Oregon.
Below is part of the explanation of the tax in the report:
See how government policies helped local hospitals lose $104 million. Read our report.
Taxpayers should contact their lawmakers to oppose this tax and oppose this takeover of health care.
