Nearly 70% of people who rely on Medicaid for health care in Lane County may lose their current coverage through the insurer PacificSource in the coming months. That’s more than 90,000 members of the Oregon Health Plan, the state’s Medicaid program.
Lane County is experiencing the first fallout in Oregon as state leaders wrangle how to pay for the care of 1.4 million lower-income residents.
The reasons and implications are complex, but here are the basics as Lookout Eugene-Springfield begins its coverage…