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Single-payer health care viable solution.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 29-SEP-03 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Single-payer health care viable solution.(Columns)(Column)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Marc Shapiro For The Register-Guard

Common rhetoric in presidential campaigns asks, "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" That question comes to mind as we close in on the first anniversary of the Measure 23 initiative campaign to enact universal single-payer health care in Oregon.

The answer falls out pretty easily from Tim Christie's Sept. 10 article, which reported that health insurance premiums have gone up an average of 14 percent - the worst in five years, and more than double the 1999 increase of 5.3 percent. This at a time when the Federal Reserve expresses concern about deflation in the rest of the economy. Rapid premium inflation is expected to continue into the foreseeable future, doubling health insurance...



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