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Faced with a $2.6 million bill for inoculating Oregon State students with an expensive new vaccine amid a meningitis outbreak, public health workers have struggled to get insurers to cover the students. The Senate at the same time debated informed consent for vaccinations.
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.
