Comments on: Archimedes Movement http://blog.onwardoregon.org/archimedes-movement/ Here are snippets from the three most-recent postings. Click an article title below to read more. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:20:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Chuck Sheketoff http://blog.onwardoregon.org/archimedes-movement/#comment-4806 Chuck Sheketoff Mon, 05 Jun 2006 22:39:42 +0000 http://blog.onwardoregon.org/archimedes-movement/#comment-4806 It is not surprising that T.A. Barnhart wrote that the Oregon Health Plan Kitzhaber helped create provided a million Oregonians with care. You sometimes hear or read that the OHP has served 1.6 million of Oregon's 3.6 million Oregonians. That number represents people served under our Medicaid and CHIP programs, as well as people served under the Medicaid Expansion known as the "Oregon Health Plan" that then-Senator John Kitzhaber and the 1989 Legislature became famous for. Just focusing on the group of Expansion clients (not otherwise eligible for traditional Medicaid or for CHIP), 675,315 were at one time or another eligible in the Expansion program. That represents approximately 41 percent of the 1.633 million clients. There is movement between programs and although 675,315 were in the Expansion program at one time or another, only 383,409 of them participated exclusively in the Expansion program; the other 291,906 were additionally eligible under the traditional Medicaid and/or CHIP programs at one time or another. It is not surprising that T.A. Barnhart wrote that the Oregon Health Plan Kitzhaber helped create provided a million Oregonians with care. You sometimes hear or read that the OHP has served 1.6 million of Oregon’s 3.6 million Oregonians.

That number represents people served under our Medicaid and CHIP programs, as well as people served under the Medicaid Expansion known as the “Oregon Health Plan” that then-Senator John Kitzhaber and the 1989 Legislature became famous for.

Just focusing on the group of Expansion clients (not otherwise eligible for traditional Medicaid or for CHIP), 675,315 were at one time or another eligible in the Expansion program. That represents approximately 41 percent of the 1.633 million clients. There is movement between programs and although 675,315 were in the Expansion program at one time or another, only 383,409 of them participated exclusively in the Expansion program; the other 291,906 were additionally eligible under the traditional Medicaid and/or CHIP programs at one time or another.

]]> By: Kevin Hayden http://blog.onwardoregon.org/archimedes-movement/#comment-4157 Kevin Hayden Wed, 17 May 2006 05:43:05 +0000 http://blog.onwardoregon.org/archimedes-movement/#comment-4157 I agree. I've been here through Straub, Atiyeh, Goldschmidt, Roberts, Kitzhaber and Kulongoski. By FAR, Kitz was the best. And for the few months I qualified for it, I also credit him for getting a medical device via the OHP that literally gave me my life back. I agree. I’ve been here through Straub, Atiyeh, Goldschmidt, Roberts, Kitzhaber and Kulongoski. By FAR, Kitz was the best. And for the few months I qualified for it, I also credit him for getting a medical device via the OHP that literally gave me my life back.

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