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Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
GUARDIAN
country, the liberties will
not be there. The citizens
of America have a duty to
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hold each other’s rights up.
In the past, America has Without knowing our liber-
gone through its hardships ties and rights, they can be
like any country, but it has taken away from us at any
also gone through times of time without our knowledge.
prosperity. History will re- It is our duty to know our
peat itself as it has in the rights, and protect them. It is
past, for better or worse. our responsibility to protect
Mistakes have happened, each other’s rights. We must
followed by
stand
to-
consequenc-
gether.
Di-
istory will
es that have
vision will
repeat itself
had
detri-
only make
mental ef-
us
fall.
as it has in the
fects on our
Keeping
past, for better up to date
country and
its people.
on current
or worse.
It is our re-
events,
sponsibility
knowing
to learn about the mistakes how our government works,
of the past to prevent them and understanding our his-
from repeating. Without tory makes our views and
knowledge of our history, opinions valid and allows
we cannot possibly recog- us to make the responsible
nize when, or if, a mistake is choices for America.
on the verge of being repeat-
It is the people of Amer-
ed. No one can prevent the ica that decide its outcome,
unknown. With knowledge and we cannot make the best
of our mistakes, we can base choices without knowing the
our decisions on what we basics of our country and
know to be true and help our what is happening around us.
country stay in prosperity in Our generation is rapidly ap-
the years to come.
proaching voting age, if most
America provides us with are not there already. It is im-
many liberties that cannot be portant for us to know about
achieved other places. With- our country as we are going
out cooperation and respect to become the future guard-
of the liberties of all our ians of this country we call
people and the laws of our home.
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Eagle photos/Angel Carpenter
Seneca School fifth-grader
Hunter Noel reads his
essay for the audience.
Seneca School fourth-grader Eliza Ashley reads her Americanism essay for family
and friends and the American Legion and Auxiliary leaders. In back, from left,
Americanism co-chairmen Jessie Lewis and Sherry Feiger, Auxiliary president Ruth
Harris and American Legion president Art Pereira.
ESSAYS
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Humbolt Elementary third-grader Vin-
cent Raschio said the contest was “amaz-
ing.”
“It helped me learn a lot about Amer-
ica,” he said.
Class I, grades 3-4
Monel Anderson, first
Vincent Raschio, second
Eliza Ashley, third
GOP
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but only for as long as they
remained enrolled without
interruption, according to the
OCPP.
Almost 20 percent of
people in Grant County are
served by a community care
organization as part of OHP,
according to a state report.
In 2014, 12 percent of people
under 65 did not have health
insurance in Grant County,
the DHS reported.
If the AHCA was enacted,
Each of the winners stood at the front
of the room to read their essays, includ-
ing McKenna Adair, whose essay cen-
tered on the importance of preserving
freedoms for future generations, and
Trinity Hutchison, who said Americans
wouldn’t have the freedoms they enjoy
without those who’ve put their lives on
the line.
Seneca student Hunter Noel said
we’re all soldiers, defending our free-
doms.
Feiger said she appreciated the thought
and preparation that went into the essays.
“It’s a great opportunity to give our
kids a chance to speak about their country,
what they believe and what they want,”
she said.
Results
Class II, grades 5-6
Raney Anderson, first
Macy Carter, second
Hunter Noel, third
Class IV, grades 9-10
Samantha Floyd, first
Madi McKrola, second
Trinity Hutchison, third
the Oregon Health Plan would
have lost 41.8 percent of fed-
eral funding, according to the
OCPP. To continue funding
those on Medicaid, the state
would have had to nearly qua-
druple its contributions.
Republican
proponents
said the plan would take con-
trol of health care away from
the federal government and
give it to the states, giving cit-
izens more flexibility on how
they spend their money on
healthcare.
The AHCA would have
eliminated individual and
employer mandate penalties,
Class V, grades 11-12
Annie Wall, first
Josh Carpenter, second
McKenna Adair, third
established a Patient and
State Stability Fund to pro-
vide states with $100 billion
to design programs that meet
the unique needs of their pa-
tient populations and helped
low-income Americans afford
health care by providing a tax
credit between $2,000-14,000
a year for low- and middle-in-
come individuals and fami-
lies.
Women would not have
been able to use tax credits to
purchase a plan covering elec-
tive abortions.
Like Obamacare, the GOP
replacement would have pro-
hibited insurers from denying
coverage or charging more
money to patients based on
pre-existing conditions and
allowed dependents to stay on
a parent’s plan until the age of
26.
Obamacare taxes, includ-
ing taxes on prescription
drugs, over-the-counter med-
ications, health insurance pre-
miums and medical devices,
would have been removed,
according to the GOP.
“Under our plan, we pre-
serve important provisions
like protecting patients with
pre-existing conditions while
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implementing important re-
forms to provide states with
greater flexibility, lower
cost for families, and greater
choice for patients,” Walden,
the chairman of the Commit-
tee on Energy & Commerce,
said.
In Walden’s district in rural
Oregon, Medicaid enrollment
through the Oregon Health
Plan surpassed 30 percent in
eight of the counties. About
129,200 people in the district
are covered by the Medic-
aid expansion. The district’s
uninsured rate dropped from
17 percent to 8 percent under
Obamacare.
Walden’s district expanded
Medicaid more than any oth-
er Republican district in the
country, according to a report
by the U.S. House of Repre-
sentatives Committee on En-
ergy and Commerce.
Over half of all children
in Walden’s district rely on
Medicaid, and 30 percent of
Oregonians in rural counties
rely on the OHP, compared
to 24 percent of residents
in urban counties. Walden’s
district has the most resi-
dents, 29 percent, who rely
on the OHP, according to the
OCPP.
“Our analysis found that
for every step of progress that
Oregon made, the American
Health Care Act will take Or-
egon three steps back,” Gov.
Kate Brown said. “Since
2014, we have made tremen-
dous progress to ensure that
nearly every Oregonian has
access to health insurance
coverage. The ripple effect of
pulling healthcare out from
under Oregonians is wide-
spread, from families, to doc-
tors, to hospitals. I look for-
ward to sharing their voices
with Oregon and Congress.”
Under Obamacare, Oregon
extended Oregon Health Plan
coverage to approximate-
ly 400,000 Oregonians who
lacked health insurance, and
today OHP covers more than
one in four Oregonians, in-
cluding almost 40 percent of
residents in some rural parts
of the state, according to a re-
port released by the state.
More than 95 percent of
Oregonians, and 98 percent of
children, now have health care
coverage. The uninsured rate
could triple if Obamacare’s
health insurance subsidies and
Medicaid expansion are re-
pealed, according to the state.
Obamacare also creat-
ed a marketplace for people
to find health insurance and
subsidies. Over 155,000 Or-
egonians have signed up for
health insurance through the
marketplace since the end
of January, according to the
state.
The nonprofit Economic
Policy Institute estimated Or-
egon would also lose a total of
42,000 jobs if Obamacare was
repealed.
EO Media Group senior
reporter Kathy Aney contrib-
uted to this report.
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