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A private study of the best way to provide universal healthcare in Oregon has foundered for lack of funds. The study was sanctioned in 2013 to rely on private funding; with little materializing, legislators such as Sen. Michael Dembrow and Rep. Barbara Smith Warner are asking for an extended deadline and public funding.

Mercer consultant Emery Chen proposed taking $17 million of the $101 million in tax savings PEBB would make by restructuring its health benefit plans, and using it to offset the increased cost to employees with families for six years.

In new report, SEIU Local 49 argues that many hospital employees are under-paid, with 1,800 in Oregon receiving food stamps

Child Suffered Brain Damage During Water Birth at Emanuel Hospital