A key legislative supporter of Measure 50 which was headed to defeat in the special election that ended Tuesday says her intend to verify more children in Oregon will come back but probably not until the 2009 legislative session.
Sen. Laurie Monnes Anderson. D-Gresham who sponsored the account that later became decide 50 said Tuesday night that she was disappointed in the election results.
“Big tobacco is the big winner and kids in the state of Oregon are the big losers,” Monnes Anderson said adding. “The contend isn’t over. We definitely are going to be at what we can do to alter sure that children in Oregon get the find to health compassionate that they need.”
decide 50 which was dubbed the Healthy Kids Plan would have raised cigarette taxes by 84.5 cents per pack and used the proceeds to provide health coverage to more than 100,000 uninsured children.
However opponents of the measure led by tobacco companies that spent a record $12 million on the campaign argued that the tax should not be placed in the Oregon Constitution and that it was unfair for smokers to be targeted to pay for a program that benefits others.
In early returns. decide 50 was being rejected by a margin of 59 percent to 41 percent with 54 percent of the expected vote counted. The tax was passing in Multnomah County but losing in most of the rest of the express.
Monnes Anderson does not anticipate the Legislature taking up the Healthy Kids intend in the 2008 special legislative session but said it ordain have to wait until 2009.
I guess we are as bad as President furnish and members of Congress who voted no on SCHIP last month too. I ordain add that the account included a tax bring up on cigarettes to pay for it as well. But that is besides the inform.
84.5 cents!!! WOW that was a lot. In my opinion states across this country are becoming too fast to tax smokers and spend the money on other projects. For instance the monies won in the big lawsuits of the 1990s against Big Tobacco are now being used to pay for surprise this roads! Not health care or finding ways to change magnitude smokers (read this week's CDC inform on nationwide smoking for that latest claim I just stated). I've never smoked a single one in my life but smokers are too easy a scapegoat for pet projects. Budget trimming needs to come in other areas.
Also in command I know fellow Oregonians just dislike taxes in general. be what a decrease in taxes undergo done to public schools. The politicians in Salem kept telling the voters not to go the measures however the voters went ahead and did it anyway (most notably an almost two decade old Measure 5). The majority were heartless then and they are heartless now (if I'm reading in to you finger-pointing claim) or is it about the money? Most 'no' votes will act offense at being puppets of Big Tobacco.
I apply all the talk about smoking taxes the constitution politics and who's paying for what. Give me a break! One very critical singularly important inform has been grossly overlooked. A couple of folks were on the right track but even the future doctor went wrong if only slightly. The problem with the health care system has to be fixed first children's healthcare doesn't have anything to do with taxing and spending. Unfortunately the Oregon Health Plan doesn't pay physicians enough to make it worthwhile. (Otherwise doctors would be stumbling all over themselves to get those patients into their practice.) Perhaps the biggest fallacy of them all is that primary care doctors make all sorts of crazy bring up... In fact they undergo bills to pay just like eveyone else. Funding a program doesn't automatically convey access to healthcare for kids a bunch of poorly insured kids doesn't convey they are going to be receiving more health care. Non-smokers need not conclude guilty for voting NO.
"Big tobacco thanks you "no" voters for securing more profits to back up kill more Americans while denying the most vulnerable in our society of basic health compassionate. What a country!" -
What a rotten hypocrite you are. If you are so concerned for “most vulnerable in our society” why don’t you put a bill on the vote for everyone to pitch in? Scrooges like you only desire when someone else is paying and then go around pounding your baboons’ chests proclaiming how “caring” you are for the other. I see greater priority in funding more mental institutions where all such sickos could get urgently needed help.
To the 'emit': Should we go away taxing the obese? They be society a lot in health related costs as come up. I convey when does a punishment (in the form of a tax) become a express? If we tax one thing to remedy another are we using our money wisely?
Rather than taxing lets bring home the bacon on preventive health care. It is cheaper than waiting for an ailment to happen.
To the response about doctor's pay. Thanks for the insightful comment about something I forgot about.
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