Oregon Holds Health Insurance Lottery


	Oregon Holds Health Insurance Lottery

BobbyDelray

3-4-2008 1:08 PM

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3-5-2008 6:33 PM

kkcapricorn

So this is what it has finally come to be.

3-5-2008 6:36 PM

dmegivern

Yikes, how gruesome. So whether you get to live or die as an ill person is now a raffle.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3cbc465d-2650-41fa-a14e-728b833edc12/B6020B67-1C4E-4892-814D-6E392AB5DA9F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.physorg.com/news123855256.html" href="http://www.physorg.com/news123855256.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.physorg.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.physorg.com/news123855256.html">Oregon is conducting a one-of-a-kind lottery, and the prize is health insurance. The state will start drawing names this week for the chance to enroll in a health care program designed for people not poor enough for Medicaid but too cash-strapped to buy their own insurance.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.physorg.com/news123855256.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.physorg.com/img/F574196B-A97A-4AEC-A0FD-9F70B2B11622" alt="Shirley Krueger who suffers from diabetes sits in her apartment in Salem Ore. Feb. 27 2008. Krueger who works part time signed up on the first day in a one-of-a-kind state lottery for the chance of health insurance coverage. (AP PhotoGreg Wahl-Stephe ..." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.physorg.com/news123855256.html">"It's better than nothing, it's at least a hope," said Shirley Krueger, 61, who signed up the first day.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.physorg.com/news123855256.html"><DIV>An estimated 600,000 people in Oregon are uninsured, according to the Oregon Department of Human Services. 
</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.physorg.com/news123855256.html"><DIV>At its peak in 1995, the program covered 132,000 Oregonians. State budget cuts forced the program to close to newcomers by 2004, but it now has several thousand openings. 
</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.physorg.com/news123855256.html"><DIV>The health insurance lottery <A class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="#" target="_blank" itxtdid="5320267">winners</A> will be chosen in a series of drawings that could take a few months. 
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