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Trillium receives about $5.7 million in state backin g each year. The level is expected to stay the same, meaningy the program must sustainany cost-of-living However, providers could become far busier. The same is true for the state’ s hospitals, which are vehemently protesting Kulongoski’se proposal that could boos t provider taxes up another4 percent, or a shade higherd than the hospitals’ overall marginds last year. A second tax could levy anothedr 1.5 percent on premiums. “That’sw a total potential 5.5 percent said Andy Davidson, president and CEO of the and Healthn Systems. “I’m not sure the benefits outweigh thecost here.
Societally, we have to do something to addreszsthis issue.” Smith, for one, is prepariny for the worst. “W e have enough in reserve thatwe won’tt do anything dramatic this she said. “But even though there’e a 2.4 percent increase for now, it’s actually a loss when you look at thingws like increased healthcare costs. So there’s almost no way we won’t have to make