Mar 17, 2021
Governor Kate Brown today detailed her support for House Bill 2164, Cover All People, in a hearing of the House Committee on Health Care. The bill, a product of the collaborative work of the Governor’s Racial Justice Council Health Equity Committee, would allow the Oregon Health Authority to create a state-based program to provide high-quality coverage for medically-underserved people, regardless of their immigration status––including legal permanent residents, young adults who age out of Oregon’s Cover All Kids program, DACA recipients, and undocumented adults. The program, modeled on the Oregon Health Plan, would focus on serving parents who have children or dependents in the Cover All Kids program as a minimum first step.
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Murphy’s N.J. budget would give health insurance for every child, cut premiums for the uninsured
Updated Mar 11, 2021;
Murphy’s revenue-rich budget includes:
$25 million to reduce monthly premiums for people who buy their own health coverage;
$20 million health coverage for all 88,000 uninsured children in the state;
$8.5 million to permit new mothers on Medicaid to retain health coverage throughout the infant’s first year of life, under First Lady Tammy Murphy’s Nurture NJ initiative;
$6.85 million to allow 20,000 additional senior citizens, previously excluded because of their income, to use the popular Pharmaceutical Assistance to the Aged and Disabled and Senior Gold programs to cover most prescription drug costs;
Here’s the full text of Gov. Phil Murphy’s state budget speech
Updated Feb 23, 2021;
“My fellow New Jerseyans.
Six weeks ago, I stood in this empty theater to lay out my vision for the year ahead and for the New Jersey we believe and know we can build, on the other side of the pandemic.
Much has changed in the six weeks since the State of the State Address.
We worked hard to crush the curve again, and today the second wave of the pandemic, which was just hitting its peak six weeks ago, is subsiding.
The numbers of patients in our hospitals, and of those requiring intensive care and ventilators, are all down. Almost every day, more patients leave our hospitals than are admitted.
My fellow New Jerseyans.
Six weeks ago, I stood in this empty theater to lay out my vision for the year ahead and for the New Jersey we believe – and know – we can build, on the other side of the pandemic.
Much has changed in the six weeks since the State of the State Address.
We worked hard to crush the curve again, and today the second wave of the pandemic, which was just hitting its peak six weeks ago, is subsiding.
The numbers of patients in our hospitals, and of those requiring intensive care and ventilators, are all down. Almost every day, more patients leave our hospitals than are admitted.