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Oregon Health Plan Trust Fund, Ballot Measure 4 (2000)
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Election results
This measure failed at the November 2000 General Election.
| Measure 4 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 No | 789,543 | 54.8% | ||
| Yes | 650,850 | 45.2% | ||
Ballot title
Dedicates Tobacco-Settlement Proceeds; Earnings Fund Low-Income Health Care[2]
Proponents
Senator Eugene D. Timms, Senator Lee Beyer, and Edwin Eugene Patterson
Support
[3] Supporters believed the measure would provide for the best use of tobacco settlement money and ensures stable health care funding for uninsured children and adults in Oregon.
Some of those in favor of the measure were:
- Oregon Nurses Association
- Governor (until 2003) John A. Kitzhaber, M.D.
- Oregon Medical Association
- Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems
Opposition
[4] The American Heart Association, The American Lung Association of Oregon and many others believed the measure should have designated funding towards tobacco-use prevention and urged voters not to pass a measure that doesn't use the money for what they consider to be its "intended" use.
Some of the others opposed were:
- The American Cancer Society
- Oregon State Council of Senior Citizens
- Oregon Federation of Nurses & Health Professionals
- Housing Lobby Coalition
See also
- Oregon 2000 ballot measures
- List of Oregon ballot measures
- 2000 ballot measures
- Procedures for qualifying an initiative in Oregon
- Laws governing the initiative process in Oregon
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