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AARP Oregon Responds to Rep. Paul Ryan’s Budget Plan

AARP Oregon Responds to Rep. Paul Ryan’s Budget Plan

This budget proposal upends vital programs without addressing skyrocketing health care costs
April 12, 2011 -- We agree with Chairman Paul Ryan that our nation’s long-term finances deserve attention, but this budget proposal upends vital programs for health and retirement security without addressing the underlying problem of skyrocketing healthcare costs. Read More >>
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Feds Start Preparing for Co-Op Health Plans

Feds Start Preparing for Co-Op Health Plans

There’s been $6 billion allocated to jump start such plans that becomes available in 2014
January 26, 2011 -- A national public option may have died, but before Congress passed the Affordable Care Act last March, lawmakers included a provision that calls for consumer-operated healthcare plans – known as co-operatives. Read More >>
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Republicans Can’t Touch Medicaid or Children’s Health

Republicans Can’t Touch Medicaid or Children’s Health

That should also apply to the Indian Health Service since Congress doesn’t have to appropriate those dollars
January 25, 2011 -- Journalists like me have played the role of Chicken Little for many years. We have written dozens of stories about the consequences of an election, predicting what will happen after Republicans win and fulfill their promises to drastically cut government. Read More >>
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Toward an Effective and Sustainable Healthcare System

Toward an Effective and Sustainable Healthcare System

The author, who has come up with a sample set of principles to guide our healthcare system, also identifies the 15 biggest problems facing our dysfunctional system
January 19, 2011 -- Unless you were an insurance company, you desperately needed healthcare reform last year. Despite health plans lobbying to defeat reform using more than half a billion dollars of our health insurance premiums, money that should have treated our loved ones instead of fighting to treat no one, reform became law. Read More >>
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Rick North Prepares to Take on Powerful Corporate Interests

Rick North Prepares to Take on Powerful Corporate Interests

He’s stepping down from the Campaign for Safe Food where he led the effort to eliminate recombinant bovine growth hormone from milk products
January 13, 2011 -- Rick North has a passion for democracy that took an unexpected turn when conservative Republicans gained control of Congress in November. Read More >>
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Congress Fails to Adopt Maternity Care Quality Act

Congress Fails to Adopt Maternity Care Quality Act

Yet U.S. women have a greater lifetime risk of pregnancy-related complications than those in 40 other countries
January 5, 2011 -- Despite our nation’s wealth and advances in healthcare technology, women in the United States have a greater lifetime risk of dying of pregnancy-related complications than women in 40 other countries, including every other industrialized nation. Read More >>
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Indian Healthcare Improvement Act Could Face Funding Cuts

Indian Healthcare Improvement Act Could Face Funding Cuts

January 4, 2011 -- Will Republicans muster enough votes to repeal the healthcare bill? A Michigan Republican said over the weekend that he sees “significant” bipartisan support for repeal, possibly even enough votes to override a presidential veto. Read More >>
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Earl Blumenauer Shares The Worst Vote of His Political Career

Earl Blumenauer Shares The Worst Vote of His Political Career

Funding for alternative mental health programs has been whittled away since Blumenaer was in the Oregon legislature in the late 1970s
November 4, 2010 -- Just a few days shy of being re-elected to Oregon's 3rd district Congressional seat, Earl Blumenauer told a group of 100 community members about the worst vote of his political career. Read More >>
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Kurt Schrader Rides Fine Line on Healthcare

Kurt Schrader Rides Fine Line on Healthcare

Republican opponent Scott Bruun says cuts to Medicare will hurt Oregon seniors
October 27, 2010 -- Congressman Kurt Schrader isn’t exactly running away from healthcare like many Democratic incumbents in swing districts this year, but he isn’t actively campaigning on the issue either. Read More >>
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Turnout High for Insurance Exchange Talks

Turnout High for Insurance Exchange Talks

After a series of public forums the Oregon Health Authority is left with strong public engagement but little direct mandate
September 16, 2010 -- This time last year, a series of town hall meetings would have garnered far different reactions than the cordial tones state officials have encountered recently in a series of public forums around the state about healthcare reform. Read More >>
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