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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2017
Oregon AG: Delay
vote on net neutrality
Rosenblum
warns of fraud
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Oregon Attor-
ney General Ellen Rosenblum
and 17 other attorneys gen-
eral wanted the Federal Com-
munications
Commission
to delay a vote to end a rule
that prohibits internet provid-
ers from making it more dif-
ficult or expensive to access
one website over another.
The attorneys general, all
Democrats, stated in a letter
that they are concerned about
the amount of falsified com-
ments that were made to the
FCC in support of the rule
change.
The five-member com-
mission, three Republicans
and two Democrats, voted
3-2 today along party lines to
repeal the rule.
“Changing the rules
around net neutrality will
have major implications for
commerce and almost every
aspect of modern life. Before
that is allowed to happen,
we must get to the bottom of
whether fraud was committed
in the FCC comment process
on behalf of unsuspecting
Americans,” Rosenblum said
in a statement Wednesday.
Rosenblum spearheaded
the letter and obtained signa-
tures from the attorneys gen-
eral of California, Delaware,
District of Columbia, Hawaii,
Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky,
Maine, Maryland, Massachu-
setts, Mississippi, North Car-
olina, Pennsylvania, Rhode
Island, Virginia, Vermont and
Washington.
New York Attorney Gen-
eral Eric Schneiderman’s
office is investigating whether
commenters illegally used
the identities of New York-
ers to give feedback on net
neutrality.
FCC Commissioner Jes-
sica Rosenworcel also has
looked into the authenticity
of comments. She told NPR’s
“The Takeaway” Tuesday
that among 23 million com-
ments about the proposed
rule change, she and Schnei-
derman had found 1 million
used stolen identities. About
500,000 of the comments
came from Russian addresses,
and 50,000 consumer com-
plaints were omitted from the
record of comments, she told
the radio program.
Schneiderman released
new information Wednesday
that his office had identified
a total of 2 million fake com-
ments on net neutrality to the
FCC using stolen identities of
Americans across the country.
The office has a search
engine where residents can
look to see if their identity
was used fraudulently.
Supporters of the proposed
rule change argue that end-
ing net neutrality will benefit
consumers by spurring more
competition between broad-
band providers.
But Rosenworcel noted
on “The Takeaway” that half
of U.S. households have only
one choice for a broadband
provider.
“A careful review of the
publicly available information
revealed a pattern of fake sub-
missions using the names of
real people. In fact, there may
be over 1 million fake submis-
sions from across the coun-
try,” the letter by the attorneys
general states. “This is akin
to identity theft on a massive
scale — and theft of some-
one’s voice in a democracy is
particularly concerning.”
The attorneys general said
“it’s essential that the com-
mission gets a full and accu-
rate picture of how changes
to net neutrality will affect the
everyday lives of Americans
before they can act on such
sweeping policy changes.”
Measure 101 supporters,
opponents clash in debate
By CLAIRE
WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
PORTLAND — Support-
ers and opponents of Measure
101, which could repeal part
of Oregon’s Medicaid funding
plan, faced off Wednesday in a
debate at the Multnomah Ath-
letic Club.
Medicaid is a health care
coverage program jointly
funded by the state and fed-
eral government serving about
1 million Oregonians through
the Oregon Health Plan.
A special election Jan. 23
concerns parts of a new fund-
ing law. Particularly at issue
are provisions in the law
to increase federal Medic-
aid matching funding by col-
lecting assessments from the
state’s hospitals, insurers and
coordinated care organiza-
tions — the regional networks
of providers serving Medicaid
patients.
A trio of Republican state
representatives successfully
petitioned to refer portions of
the law, including those provi-
sions, to the ballot.
Measure 101 will ask vot-
ers to either vote “yes,” to keep
all the provisions of the bill; or
“no,” to cut some of them out.
Republican state Reps.
Julie Parrish, of Tualatin/West
Linn, and Cedric Hayden, of
Roseburg, who referred the
issue to the ballot, spoke in
favor of repealing parts of the
law Wednesday.
Speaking on the oppo-
site side was Felisa Hagins,
political director of the Ser-
vice Employees International
Union Local 49, and Jessica
Adamson, director of govern-
ment affairs for Providence
Health and Services, who are
advocating to keep all of the
assessments.
Some takeaways from
EO Media Group
Supporters and opponents of a ballot measure on Oregon’s
Medicaid funding package squared off in a debate Wednesday.
Wednesday’s forum:
• Neither side wants to
cut people from Medicaid:
Both sides of the issue said
they didn’t want people on
Medicaid to lose health care.
Parrish and Hagins say they
grew up covered by Medicaid,
and Hayden, a dentist, serves
patients on the Oregon Health
Plan.
Hayden and Parrish largely
disagree with the Measure 101
supporters, though, on how
it ought to be paid for — and
argue the state could find other
sources of funding.
Supporters of the measure
say that it took the last legisla-
tive session to get insurers and
Medicaid providers to agree
on a funding plan. They argue
the legislation’s mechanisms
are approved ways to collect
federal matching funds, which
pay the vast majority of Med-
icaid costs.
• Where could the money
from the taxes go? The two
sides disagree on whether the
funds generated by portions of
the legislation at issue can be
reverted to the state’s general
fund to pay for other things.
Parrish claims a legisla-
tive counsel opinion from June
indicates that a 0.7 percent
assessment on net hospital rev-
enues could get swept to the
state’s general fund and used
for purposes other than health
care.
The “yes” side disagrees,
saying that the money col-
lected from the assessment
would only go to health care,
and that a “sweep” to the gen-
eral fund requires separate
legislation — which is not an
unprecedented move.
• The insurance market:
The cost of insurance for those
not on Medicaid, which could
also be affected by the bal-
lot measure, came up during
Wednesday’s debate as well.
The law’s 1.5 percent tax
on gross premiums, or pre-
mium equivalents for public
employee health care plans,
on insurers is intended to fund
a reinsurance program that
insulates insurers from high-
risk claims that can drive up
premiums.
Proponents say it’s already
working, reducing 2018 pre-
miums by an average of 6
percent.
However, petitioners want
to stop the tax on insurers,
because the law allows insur-
ers to increase premiums by
up to 1.5 percent to absorb the
cost of the tax.
They also argue that the
state could have pre-empted
the need for a reinsurance mar-
ket by enrolling the state’s pub-
lic employees in coordinated
care organizations or having
the state buy employees’ insur-
ance on the exchange — either
of those moves, they argue,
would dramatically increase
the risk pool and bring down
premiums.
Hagins, the SEIU panelist,
said that the Public Employee
Benefits Board — which
oversees health care benefits
for public employees — did
a pilot project that enrolled
employees in a coordinated
care organization.
But, Hagins said, the CCO
was unable to contain rates to
the agreed level.
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