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Measure 23. the "Health Care for All Oregon” Women of Oregon, Multnomah County
initiative, has won endorsements from dozens ot Retired Educators; and the Ecumenical
groups dedicated to people of all races and back Ministries of Oregon, a group that in
grounds. Among these organizations are the Con cludes the African Methodist Episcopal
sumers Union; the Oregon, Alaska, and Washington Church, African Methodist Episcopal
Zion Church, United Church
o f Christ and M ethodist
Church.
EMO sums up its sup
port of Measure 23 this way:
“EMO upholds its social
principal of the right to basic health care
for all. We have witnessed over the years
many who struggle without basic health
care in our current system. Wliile this
measure, like other health care systems
around the world, has pros and cons, it is
a step in the right direction. The measure
of society is based upon its willingness to
provide the basic needs for all.”
Measure 23 ensures access to afford
able quality health care for all Oregon
residents through a comprehensive in
surance plan providing payment for medi
cally necessary health services.
The key concepts of the measure are
medical security, affordability, universal
Jackpots
ity and choice.
It would guarantee that health insur
can climb to
ance coverage could never be denied if
$300 Million
you or your family change jobs, retire, or
or higher.
have a serious, pre-existing medical con
dition. It would save you money by get
ting rid o f deductibles, co-payments and
insurance premiums. All residents of the
state would be eligible to choose from
any state licensed, certified, or registered
health care practitioner. You pick your
health care provider, not your HMO!
The medical services provided by
Measure 23 include prescriptions, inpa
tient and outpatient services, vision and
dental, long-term care, preventive medi
cine, mental health, complementary medi
N ew Gam e Starts
cine, alternative treatments, and neces
sary transportation.
Septem ber 4.
The campaign against universal health
care is being waged by the so-called
“Oregonians Against Unhealthy Taxes”,
U vn r.ill o dd s a re 1 43. M u s t b e 18 to pttir.Iw su
a two-member political action committee
ot redeem. Be a s m a rt p layot k n o w yout lim it
Problem G am bling H e lp lin e 1 8 00 547-6133.
formed on Aug. 13. Its only members are
D raw ing s Tuesdays and Fridays a t 8 0 0 P M
The Space N e e d le is a re g iste re d tradem ark
Mark W. Nelson, a highly paid Salem
o f the Space N eedle C orporation a nd is used
lobbyist and Ken Yates, listed as a “trade
under license.
association executive.”
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As of Sept. 30, Kaiser Permanente North
west, PacifiCare of Oregon, Pacificsource
Health Plans, ODS Health Plans, and Blue
Cross Blue Shields of Oregon, the biggest
players in Oregon’s health insurance and
health care industry, had each contrib
uted $50,000 or more to defeat Measure 23.
These opponents of universal health
care have smeared Measure 23’s support
ers with an un-American, McCarthyite,
red-baiting attack The ploy is to confuse
voters by comparing “socialized health
insurance” with “socialized medicine.”
The ploy has been used before. As a U.S. senator,
former President George Bush voted against Medi
care as being “socialized medicine.”
In fact, Medicare is “socialized health insurance”
run by the U.S. government.
* Of all the forms of
injustice, inequality of
health care is the most
shocking and the most
inhumane.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
True examples of “socialized medicine” are the
world-famous National Naval Medical Center in
Bethesda. Md., employing U.S. Navy doctors, and
the new Indian Health Service Hospital, in Fairbanks,
Alaska, employing U.S. Public Health Service doc
tors.
The hard fact is that under our capitalist system,
423,000 Oregonians, including 70.000children, have
no health insurance.
I believe that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would have
supported Measure 23.
“ If we are to achieve a real equality, the U.S. will
have to adopt a modified form of socialism,” King
wrote in 1965 while in jail in Selma. Ala.
Vote “yes” on Ballot Measure 23.
Walt Brown, a retired U.S. Navy JAG Corps com
mander, is a longtime advocate o f universal health
insurance. He o rigin ally jo in e d the NAACP in 1949
and serves on the steering committee o f Health Care
f o r All-Oregon. Brown also serves as C hair Em eri
tus, Socialist Party o f Oregon. This November, he's
a candidate f o r Congress in Oregon's 3rd Congres
sional D is tric t, a seat c u rre n tly held by E a rl
Blumenauer.
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