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Tobacco tax hike would fund kid's health care
Friday morning was a time for a measles/mumps/rubella shot and a well-child checkup for little Kyla Getz, 2.
Her
pediatric nurse practitioner, Melinda Tsuchiya, looked her over for a
physical and quizzed Kyla on the drawings of a puppy, a birdie and a
kitty-cat for the checkup, which made her smile and laugh. The shot
made her cry."That's what a well-child is for. You look cigarette at the growth, you look at the development, cigarette
you look at everything," Tsuchiya said. "These kids are doing fine with
their development. Most moms are pretty good about getting their kids
in."Kyla's mom, cigarette Erin Getz of Sutherlin, brought three
of her five kids into the Umpqua Community Health Clinic on Friday.
Kyla and her little sister, Isabella, 11 months old, each got checkups.
Their half-sister, Asia Huffine, 7, needed to see the dentist.Getz said
she's lucky her girls are covered by the Oregon Health Plan "for now,"
since she is currently staying
cigarette home with the kids, and her husband cigarette attends nursing school at Umpqua Community College.Getz has cigarette a friend who lost health coverage for her family after she lost her job at Dell. Her friend's husband has a job that offers cigarette
health insurance, but the family can't afford it."There is a gap group
that's right in between the Oregon Health Plan and the people who can
afford private insurance," Tsuchiya said. "I care for the cigarette children regardless of their ability to pay."
CARE FROM CIGARETTE
Measure 50, which appears on this year's Nov. 6 ballot, would create the cigarette
"Healthy Kids Program," offering children 18 and younger health
coverage for families that make less than 300 percent of the federal
poverty rate, or $62,000 for a family of four.The coverage cigarette
would be financed by a tax hike of 84 1/2 cents per pack of cigarettes
or can of smokeless tobacco, pushing the tax just past $2 a pack.
Tobacco users now pay $1.18 per pack, with 77 cents of that amount used
to help fund the Oregon Health Plan."Much of the current cigarette tax
goes to paying for health care, so there's a precedent," said Dr. Bruce
Goldberg, director of the Oregon Department of Human Services. "A piece
of this also goes to (tobacco-use) prevention."He said the increase
level was set to match the tax of the state of Washington. The state of
Oregon still pays more in
cigarette tobacco-related illnesses than is recovered from the current tobacco tax.Children cigarette
in families that makes less than 200 percent of the poverty rate
($41,300 for a family of four) would be managed by the Medicaid system,
which currently covers the elderly and indigent. Those between 200 and
300 percent of the federal poverty line would be offered two private
health care options, subsidized cigarette by the state to make
the plans more affordable."There are currently 117,000 uninsured
children in the state," Goldberg said. "This would cover approximately
90,000 kids."The Umpqua Community Health Clinic bills patients without
insurance cigarette on a sliding scale based on income. About
half of the 1,800 children the clinic serves have no insurance, said
Director Linda Mullins."It certainly would be cigarette helpful for us to bill the Oregon Health Plan instead of relying on the small amount the patients can pay," Mullins said.
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