The Senate Appropriations Committee has voted to require that the WIC program add potatoes to its vegetable package. The vote overrules scientific studies that show poor women and children already eat more potatoes than they need but not enough fruits and other vegetables.
Not only did those involved underestimate the complexity of the projects, they also had some latent hostility toward private insurers, according to this author.
Sen. Brian Boquist tells The Lund Report that Thompson’s loss could set up a Democratic victory in the Dallas area seat, and he has filed a complaint against Mike Nearman, who defeated Thompson. In other races, Oregon Nurses Association union representative Rob Nosse won his race in liberal southeast Portland.
Led by Health Care for All, advocates are demanding to know how much Providence Health & Services paid for the naming rights and believe those dollars should have gone toward patient care.
Comments from U.S. Health & Human Services nominee Sylvia Mathews Burwell meant more negative national press for Cover Oregon, but both leading candidates for the Oregon governor’s office think there’s little new indication that the federal government will make the state repay the $248 million grants it wasted on Cover Oregon before abandoning ship and turning over operations to the federal website, healthcare.gov.
This latest installment examines the profitability of Ashland, Grande Ronde, Columbia Memorial, Good Shepherd, Mid-Columbia, Santiam, Silverton, Sky Lakes, McKenzie-Willamette and Willamette Valley hospitals.
