Prize in Oregon lottery is health insurance

It sounds like a good project to help people...but were are we going with all of this...why does health insurance need to be given in the form of a lottery and how about the unlucky participants...BD

PORTLAND — Oregon is holding a one-of-a-kind state lottery, in which the prize is health insurance.
Beginning this week, the state will start drawing names for the chance to enroll in an Oregon program, which was designed for the likes of students, the unemployed and the employed without workplace benefits — people not poor enough for Medicaid but too cash-strapped to buy their own insurance.
More than 80,000 people have signed up for a chance, but only a few thousand will be chosen. Shirley Krueger, 61, signed up the first day. The health insurance lottery winners will be chosen in a series of drawings that could take a few months
The lottery system was designed to give everybody an equal chance to be selected — so those who needed extra time or assistance to complete their forms would have an equal chance.