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Sell SAIF? No.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 30-SEP-04 		Format: Online - approximately 756 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Sell SAIF? No.(Editorials)(Measure 38 is recklessness, not reform)(Editorial)

Article Excerpt
Byline: The Register-Guard

Supporters of Measure 38 offer both economic and political reasons to sell SAIF, the state-owned workers' compensation company. SAIF does, indeed, have problems that deserve Oregonians' attention. Measure 38, however, tears down the house without regard for the people living inside - the 46,000 Oregon employers whose workers are insured by SAIF. Voters should reject this reform-by-wrecking-ball proposal.

Whatever its problems - and with good leadership, these should prove transitory - SAIF has succeeded in providing good workers' compensation coverage at an affordable price. On Tuesday Gov. Ted Kulongoski announced that SAIF's rates would remain unchanged for the third straight year in 2005. Last year, rates rose in all...

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