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Oregon House Majority Leader Ben Bowman speaks about his efforts to curb what critics call the "corporatization of medicine" at the Oregon Health Forum on Oct. 16, 2024, in Portland. To his left is Brian Kelly, CEO of Women’s Healthcare Associates. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Bowman reboots Oregon push to limit corporate control of medicine

The revived bill addresses criticism from providers, multinational corporations and other interests that helped sink it last year

Jan 14
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Trump’s return puts Medicaid on the chopping block

Republicans in Washington are working on plans to shrink Medicaid, the nearly $900-billion-a-year government health insurance program that covers 1 in 5 Americans.

Jan 14

A home and vehicle in northern Altadena, California that were damaged by the 2025 wildfires in the Los Angeles area. | COURTESY/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Doctors, nurses press ahead as wildfires strain Los Angeles’ health care

The raging fires have closed medical offices, clogged roads, triggered the evacuation of nursing facilities and caused health care providers to flee their homes

Jan 14

Nurses and other health care workers along with their supporters took to the picket lines outside Providence Portland Medical Center on Monday as the state’s largest nurses union called a five-day strike. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Providence asks to resume bargaining with nurses union despite strike

Oregon's largest hospital system has asked a federal mediator to resume sessions with the Oregon Nurses Association. More than 4,000 nurses and other providers are striking, but the system says a large number have crossed the picket lines.

Jan 11

Providence St. Vincent Medical Center, in Portland, Ore., Aug. 2, 2023. | KRISTYNA WENTZ-GRAFF/OPB

Strike at Providence hospitals will further strain Oregon's health care system

Hospitals say they'll transfer patients and make the best of the situation in a statewide system that has kept costs down by maintaining fewer beds than in most states

Jan 9
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Washington pharmacists prescribe abortion pills through new pilot program

A recent study of 6,000 patients found nearly all of them experienced no serious complications from telehealth abortions, but a conversative group opposing them has gathered several examples of abortion pills given to pregnant women without their consent

Jan 9

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OHSU study finds peers help cure patients with potentially deadly hepatitis C

Researchers say enlisting support workers from similar backgrounds helps more people receive a cure that, while costly, saves money in the long run

Jan 9

Brick hospital building with road going under sky bridge

Salem Health Salem Hospital. | BEN BOTKIN/THE LUND REPORT

Salem Health, Regence point fingers as 30,000 lose access

The two sides appear far apart as Salem Health seeks a major increase to cover recent inflation and Regence offers far less

Jan 9
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When Emily Dwyer was 15 and in need of treatment for anorexia, her parents had to refinance the mortgage on their home to pay for it after United Healthcare denied coverage. | COURTESY IF ILANA PANICH-LINSMAN

Insurers continue to rely on doctors whose judgments have been criticized by courts

In dozens of cases ProPublica reviewed, judges found that some doctors working for these companies engaged in “selective readings” of medical evidence and “shut their eyes” to medical opinions opposing their conclusions.

Jan 9