The Oregon Medicaid Demonstration Project — Will It Provide Adequate Medical Care?

OREGON'S plan to base Medicaid benefits on a prioritized list of health services has attracted national interest as a novel approach to financing medical care for the uninsured.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 The goal is to provide basic health care benefits to substantially more poor people while controlling expenditures by limiting the number of services covered. Recently, the Oregon legislature determined which services on the prioritized list to cover. The plan is now being reviewed by the federal government and may be implemented in 1992.This article analyzes the final Oregon proposal. In presenting this critique of the proposal, our intent is not to . . .