To the editor:

Measure 101 will arrive as a single-issue ballot in January, asking voters to support the existing healthcare plan that ensures that 95 percent of Oregonians and 100 percent of children have access to healthcare. It creates a fee on insurance companies, hospitals and managed care organizations to make basic healthcare affordable and accessible to every Oregonian. This is the system that 49 states in America currently use, and it’s one that’s proven to work.