Universal healthcare is the Holy Grail of progressivism, as the Left longs for the utopia of free healthcare for all. But the Left doesn’t realize that utopia is unachievable and attempts to create it result in a tyrannical disaster. Nowhere is this more evident than in Oregon’s failed attempts to achieve universal healthcare.
Mark Hemingway had an excellent piece in The Weekly Standard from 2014 chronicling the ups and downs of Oregon’s healthcare reform efforts. He explained that it all began in 1990s, when John Ritzhaber presided over Oregon’s state senate at the time of crafting the Oregon Health Plan (OHP) and eventually became governor of the state. The OHP aimed to expand Medicaid through rationing; more people would be covered in exchange for less services provided.
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