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Archive Home > 2007 > March > 13 > Raise tobacco tax and insure more of Oregon's children

Raise tobacco tax and insure more of Oregon's children

By Bruce Humphreys / The Bulletin
March 13, 2007

There are 117,000 uninsured children in Oregon, which is so many that if you lined them up side by side along Highway 97, they would reach from Bend to the outskirts of Madras. In Deschutes County, we have more than 4,500 kids without even basic health insurance, putting us higher than the state....

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