Same shit, different day. :(

Yes, my experience with the Oregon Health Plan is that you have to be basically sleeping under a bridge to qualify. If you are a productive person who is self-employed and paying taxes, but you can't afford health insurance (or any kind of EFFECTIVE and/or USEFUL health insurance), your tax dollars go to subsidize unproductive people who may not even be paying taxes. Yes, this may include some worthy people who are in the state they are in due to misfortunes beyond their control, but I feel probably a lot of them are people who use drugs or are just plain lazy. Where is the fairness in that?

In my case, I have just decided NOT to be insured. I was paying nearly $300 a month (which I really couldn't afford) for basically catastrophic care insurance. The deductibles and copays were so high that I couldn't afford office visits or Rx's. WTF!

I figure if a medical catastrophe occurs, I'll be taken to an emergency room and get care anyway and the rest of you will pay for it through higher hospital charges. You wonder why an aspirin costs $25? That's why!

This country has to get over its resistance to socialized health care because, no matter what its flaws might be, a lot of people, like me, go without health care entirely due to its absence.

Yes, and yet, Oregonians are completely averse to taxing themselves for these kinds of things.

We all cry "for shame!" when we can't have health care, roads, schools, etcetera, but the idea of constructive taxation for these things is anathema.

My wife describes this as "Oregonians' odd relationship to taxes." I think it's plain stupid.

Matt the scientific term for Oregonians relation ship with taxes is Iwantmycakeandtobeeatingittooitus.

Latin, eh?

ahh, lots of good memories with the OHP! i was on in college, and i swear to god... i didn't check my mail for a few days... the mailman took my premium bill OUT of my box, returned it to the OHP offices in salem, and they immediately terminated me. I called and they said, 'we have an agreement with the post office to pick up unopened mail and return it to us. sorry.'

also, i found out i was finally on the oregon health plan, after much trying, the EXACT same day they finally announced that they were cutting prescription coverage... and i had something that REALLY required prescription coverage.

wow, good memories!!!

so basically, look forward to lots of crap like this if you're 'lucky' enough to get picked.

I don't know if you read the link in your article but from what I'm reading it doesn't look like you necessarily have to be uninsured to qualify. For example, I am currently self-employed and I have insurance through Kaiser but can not afford it- it amounts to 1/4 of my monthly income. I'm afraid to drop it though because I was recently denied by an insurance company when I tried to switch to a plan more affordable to me.

I almost didn't bother looking into the lottery because your article makes it sound like people like me don't qualify.

Oregon Health Plan is a really very good plan.which is related to Health insurance plans and medical insurance.oregon health plan is good plan because it should be provide for middle class family.

Everyone in the US should watch Micheal Moores' "Sicko", even if you take it with a grain of salt it still strikes a cord.

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