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[Fwd: Please Post a message]From: kathleen [tash] robb bodor (Tash.Robb-Bodor@worldnet.att.net)Sun Jan 5 03:26:44 1997
James W. Fiscus wrote: > > Tash, > > Would you please post this for me--I do not want my email address going onto > the net. I get enough spam as it is. > > Thanks. > > ======================================================== > > the Oregon Health Plan, ... is doomed only because the > >legislature could not bite the bullet and require employers to provide basic > >health insurance equal to that provided by the state for the expanded > >Medicaid population (I believe this was a requirement to keep the Medicaid > >waiver). > > I've reported on the Oregon Health Plan--from Oregon--for five years. The > failure of the employer mandate indeed removes a major element from the > plan. The effect is to leave the "working poor," people making [roughly] > between 100 and 200 percent of the federal poverty level, without coverage. > But in the end, the mandate could not go into effect because Oregon did not > get a CONGRESSIONAL waiver from federal law that prevents states from > regulating inter-state businesses. [The ERISA law.] There is no direct > connection between the Medicaid waivers that are in effect and the needed > congressional waiver from ERISA. > > There has, of course, been massive lobbying at both the state and federal > level by businesses opposed to an employer mandate. The problem, of course, > is that many of these same political forces also worked to block other > reforms that might have done the same thing as an employer mandate. > > James Fiscus
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