Oregon voters to decide whether to tax insurers and hospitals to keep low-income people covered

There’s never been a ballot measure asking voters to weigh funding for the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Medicaid expansion until Oregon’s. On Tuesday, voters statewide will decide whether to keep taxing insurance companies and hospitals to pay for health insurance or tell the state legislature to return to the drawing board and think of something else.

Expanding Medicaid coverage to all people living in poverty has been a decades-long priority for Oregon. But coveri...