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Alright, my Fellow Oregonians, gather round the campfire. You know, the one you're paying for with your property taxes. You work the shift in Springfield, you run the shop in Grants Pass, you pay your PGE bill on time in Medford. Congrats. You just became the platinum sponsor of Oregon Health Plan's VIP lounge, and they forgot to put your name on the wall. Remember 2021? Kate Brown signed HB3352, "Cover All People." Sounds warm and fuzzy. What it meant was simple, meet the income line, and Salem doesn't care about your citizenship papers anymore. July 1, 2023, they flipped the switch. Full OHP. No premium. No copay. No deductible. Zero, zip, nada. Then this May, Tina Kotek did her encore. HB4127, state cash to keep reproductive clinics paid when Washington DC gets squeamish. HB4088 , Oregon plants its flag as the sanctuary state for every gender affirming procedure in the book, laser hair removal, hormones for life, puberty blockers, face sculpting, voice surgery, top surgery, bottom surgery, body contouring. All of it. All on your tab. And yeah, you heard right, you can carry that nice private insurance from work and still keep OHP in your back pocket. OHP just scoots in behind it and pays your copays and deductibles. That's the trick. So you get the $700 ambulance bill and you pay it. They get the ambulance, free. You pay $120 every three months for your kid's contacts. They get the exam, the frames, the contacts, free. You pay half for a crown and wince. They get the crown, the implant, the braces, the laughing gas, free. Oh, and the housing perk, because why stop at healthcare? OHP's HRSN program will now write the rent check for up to six months, cover the lights, the water, the storage unit, throw in some grab bars and a pest guy for good measure. You miss a rent payment? Late fee. They miss one? Salem says "we got you." I'm not here to tell you people shouldn't get care. I'm here to tell you that you, Oregonian, are the one getting played. You're the logger told to cut back, the nurse told to pick up extra shifts, the retiree told to budget better, while the Capitol hands out "free" like it's candy at the State Fair and mails you the invoice. They call it equity. I call it a forced subscription to someone else's benefits package, and it auto renews every tax season whether you clicked agree or not. You were promised the Oregon dream. What you got was the Oregon bill, free birth control, free abortions, free transplants, free MRIs, free gender surgeries, free rehab, free chiro, free acupuncture, free weight loss clinics all wrapped in that magic Salem phrase "medically necessary." Your insurance calls it elective and bills you five grand. OHP calls it necessary and bills you anyway, just through the Department of Revenue. So next time you're in the ER waiting room staring at a bill that looks like a mortgage, remember how they fixed healthcare in Salem. They didn't lower costs. They just moved the costs onto you. Wake up, Oregon. This isn't a state government anymore. It's a GoFundMe with a flag, and you never got the opt-out button. 🇺🇸 🐺 @TeamDrazan @ChristineDrazan

WhitewolfOr7's tweet photo. Alright, my Fellow Oregonians, gather round the campfire. You know, the one you're paying for with your property taxes.
You work the shift in Springfield, you run the shop in Grants Pass, you pay your PGE bill on time in Medford. Congrats. You just became the platinum sponsor of Oregon Health Plan's VIP lounge, and they forgot to put your name on the wall.
Remember 2021? Kate Brown signed HB3352, "Cover All People." Sounds warm and fuzzy. What it meant was simple, meet the income line, and Salem doesn't care about your citizenship papers anymore. July 1, 2023, they flipped the switch. Full OHP. No premium. No copay. No deductible. Zero, zip, nada.
Then this May, Tina Kotek did her encore. HB4127, state cash to keep reproductive clinics paid when Washington DC gets squeamish. HB4088 , Oregon plants its flag as the sanctuary state for every gender affirming procedure in the book, laser hair removal, hormones for life, puberty blockers, face sculpting, voice surgery, top surgery, bottom surgery, body contouring. All of it. All on your tab.
And yeah, you heard right, you can carry that nice private insurance from work and still keep OHP in your back pocket. OHP just scoots in behind it and pays your copays and deductibles. That's the trick.
So you get the $700 ambulance bill and you pay it. They get the ambulance, free. You pay $120 every three months for your kid's contacts. They get the exam, the frames, the contacts, free. You pay half for a crown and wince. They get the crown, the implant, the braces, the laughing gas, free.
Oh, and the housing perk, because why stop at healthcare? OHP's HRSN program will now write the rent check for up to six months, cover the lights, the water, the storage unit, throw in some grab bars and a pest guy for good measure. You miss a rent payment? Late fee. They miss one? Salem says "we got you."
I'm not here to tell you people shouldn't get care. I'm here to tell you that you, Oregonian, are the one getting played. You're the logger told to cut back, the nurse told to pick up extra shifts, the retiree told to budget better, while the Capitol hands out "free" like it's candy at the State Fair and mails you the invoice.
They call it equity. I call it a forced subscription to someone else's benefits package, and it auto renews every tax season whether you clicked agree or not.
You were promised the Oregon dream. What you got was the Oregon bill, free birth control, free abortions, free transplants, free MRIs, free gender surgeries, free rehab, free chiro, free acupuncture, free weight loss clinics all wrapped in that magic Salem phrase "medically necessary." Your insurance calls it elective and bills you five grand. OHP calls it necessary and bills you anyway, just through the Department of Revenue.
So next time you're in the ER waiting room staring at a bill that looks like a mortgage, remember how they fixed healthcare in Salem. They didn't lower costs. They just moved the costs onto you.
Wake up, Oregon. This isn't a state government anymore. It's a GoFundMe with a flag, and you never got the opt-out button. 🇺🇸 🐺
@TeamDrazan @ChristineDrazan

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