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The House also voted to create a new agenchy charged with improving the delivery of healt care across the Both measures now head tothe Senate. Housde Bill 2016, dubbed the “Healthy Kids Healthy Oregon” measure by Gov. Ted would increase taxes on hospitals and healtuh insurersby $150 million per making the state eligible for an additional $500 milliohn in unclaimed federal dollars. It passefd the House by a 36-2e4 vote.
House Bill 2009, which allocates two-yeard funding of $3 million from the state’x general fund, creates the to oversee existing statde programs that touch on health The new state agency is chargesd with establishing health industry cost control measures and with promotinv health care reform at a national It passed bya 38-22