JANUARY 5, 2018, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A7
watch over the enrolled numbers and it
shows them well below the projections,
and dropping. In July 2016, the number of
eligible residents was 1.06 million. A year
later, eligibility had dropped to 995,000.
As of November 2017, eligibility had
dropped again to 962,000. A rebounding
economy and higher minimum wages
are likely playing a part in the declining
eligibility.
Establishing a new .7 percent
assessment (the difference between 5.3
and 6) is, in effect, “hard tax,” Hayden
said.
“It draws down all the head room that
the program is supposed to have to cover
expanded services. The money collected
will be stacked on top of the Medicaid
funding, but it can be swept for other
purposes,” Hayden said.
Between the insurance premium
assessments, the new hard assessment
and the shrinking eligibility numbers,
Parrish is concerned that the Legislature
is trying to create a surplus within the
state's Medicaid budget that could then
be redirected for other purposes.
Parrish and Hayden reiterated that
they were not opposed to paying
for health care, but that the funding
mechanisms in the current bill did not
consider alternatives, like directing
healthcare rebates to go back to the state
rather than the insurance companies
when public money was used to cover
the initial outlay or moving public
employees to the health care exchange.
“We're not without solutions, and we
believe we need healthcare,” Parrish said.
inside or outside of the exchange. Of
that number, only 41 percent qualify for
a tax credit, the rest pay full freight,” she
said.
continued from Page A1
Entities like school districts and other
money collected is matched through large public service organizations, she
federal programs on a $3-to-$1 basis, said, will bear the brunt of the new
which means loss of the “seed” money assessment.
could result in more than a billion fewer
“If we don't solve this and the ACA
federal dollars coming into Oregon to (Affordable Care Act) doesn't change
cover
Medicaid
we are looking at
recipients.
a tax on public
The
initial
employees that is
assessment is given
going to eat up
back to insurance
budgets,” Parrish
companies with a 3
said.
percent interest and
Adding a new .7
the state uses the
percent assessment
remainder to cover
to large hospitals is
the state's Medicare
the major sticking
expenses.
point for Hayden.
Parrish
isn't
Under the ACA,
thrilled with that
states are allowed
arrangement,
to charge large
but said that the
hospitals up to 6
Coordinated Care
percent on net
Organizations
revenue to cover
subjected to the
— Rep. Julie Parrish the costs associated
new
assessment
R-Tualatin/West Linn with the program.
wouldn't
receive
However, the exact
the
initial
percentage must be
investment back.
tied to the number
Moreover, she is concerned about the of patients, known as “lives,” enrolled
groups left out of the new assessment, in the ACA in the state. Currently, the
including large companies. She calls it state is charging the hospitals 5.3 percent
a tax without a three-fi fths vote of the to cover a projected 1.5 million lives
legislature.
enrolled in the ACA throughout the
“The 1.5 percent insurance tax affects state.
217,000 Oregonians who buy their care
Parrish and Hayden have been keeping
MEASURE,
“If we don’t solve
this and the ACA
(Affordable Care Act)
doesn’t change we
are looking at a tax
on public employees
that is going to eat
up budgets.”
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