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Oregon Legislators to Give State Health Plan Rankings for Recipients, Services.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

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By Erin Hoover Barnett, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 3--SALEM, Ore.--A Senate committee Monday offered a blueprint for rescuing the Oregon Health Plan, voting for the first time to rank not only medical services but also the groups of people who would receive them.

The issue moves to the budget-writing Ways and Means Committee, where legislators will determine how many people and services the state has the money to pay for.

The nearly decade-old health plan's future has appeared in doubt this session as the Legislature wrestles with a 2003-05 state budget that's more than $3 billion less than the budget approved two years ago. Neither the governor's nor the legislative leaders' budgets would cover the more than 100,000 low-income ...

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