Low-income COFA Islanders are shut out of the Oregon Health Plan because of federal funding restrictions, so the Legislature created a special private insurance plan for them. But it didn’t include dental care. Now, the Department of Consumer and Business Services may be ordered to study the feasibility of including this service in the COFA insurance program.
New Data from CMS Actuary Shows $8.7 Billion in Higher Medicare Premiums for Seniors, Individuals with Disabilities Due to Tax Break for Pharmaceutical Drug Companies
Revelation of Higher Premiums Come After News That Payroll Tax Cut for Wealthy Would Force Medicare Part A Trust Fund Into Crisis Three Years Earlier than Expected
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Despite a lengthy work group process and the support of Providence Health & Services, two major hospital systems are trying to stop ambulatory surgery centers from offering expanded hours and instead are trying to belabor the issue with yet another work group.
