Oregon Health Policy Board Update

December 2010 This e-bulletin provides updates on the work of the committees, commissions and workgroups of the Oregon Health Policy Board and Oregon Health Authority’s health reform work. You received this bulletin because you are subscribed to an Oregon Health...

Summer 2010 Newsletter

In this Issue: You are the Key Your Voice Matters in Oregon The Oregon Health Improvement Plan The Essential Benefit Package The Health Insurance Exchange and the Public Plan The OHPB Public Meetings in September On the Road Again You are the Key We need two things...

Make End of Life More Humane

From NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross: Dr. Atul Gawande began researching hospice and end-of-life care options because he says he didn’t know how to broach the subject of death with his terminally ill patients. The surgeon and New Yorker staff writer...

Obesity Rates Keep Soaring, Troubling Health Officials

From the New York Times: Americans are continuing to get fatter and fatter, with obesity rates reaching 30 percent or more in nine states last year, as opposed to only three states in 2007, health officials reported on Tuesday. And: “Over the past several decades,...