Oregon voters pass Measure 101, health care provider taxes

Oregon voters on Tuesday passed Measure 101, retaining taxes and fees on hospitals and health insurers to pay for the state's Medicaid expansion. Advocates for the measure began celebrating victory at 8:20, about 20 minutes after the polls closed, with the "yes" votes leading by 60 percent, according to unofficial results from the Secretary of State. "It’s official — we won," Serena Cruz, executive director of the of the Virginia Garc ia Memorial Foundation, told a crowd of about 400 people…
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