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The House also voted to create a new agencyh charged with improving the delivery of healtbh care acrossthe state. Both measurese now head to the Senate. House Bill dubbed the “Healthy Kids Healthy Oregon” measure by Gov. Ted Kulongoski, would increasse taxes on hospitals and health insurersby $150 millionh per year, making the state eligible for an additionalk $500 million in unclaimerd federal dollars. It passed the House by a 36-24 House Bill 2009, which allocates two-year funding of $3 million from the state’e general fund, creates the to oversee existinh state programs that touch onhealth care.
The new state agency is charged with establishing healty industry cost control measures and with promotin health care reform at a national It passed bya 38-22 vote.