Daily Astorian Reports on CCO Community Meeting

Nice summary of what folks in Astoria think about the discussion of creating Coordinated Care Organizations. Our colleague Onofre Contreras is quoted at the end of the article: Onofre Contreras is an organizer for the Oregon Health Action Campaign, which advocates on...

NY Times OpEd: How Medicare Fails the Elderly

Jane Gross, in her piece for the October 15th New York Times, stated eloquently what we at Archimedes/We Can Do Better have been saying for almost six years – Medicare in its current structure needs more than “saving” – it needs transformation...

Medicaid and the Health Insurance Exchange

As we talk about the nexus between Medicaid and the Insurance Exchange there are a number of issues that rise up. This report from Public Consulting Group, discusses issues in Nevada and its Department of Health and Human Services, but it outlines many of the issues...

This week at The Lund Report

Our friends over at The Lund Report are doing some good reporting. Here’s their current offering. Hospitals See Their Medicaid Rate Cut by 15 Percent Officials from the Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems admit they’re disappointed with Governor...

OHA is Looking for Technically Minded Consumers

Due to passage of SB 204, Tina Edlund, Deputy Director of the Oregon Health Authority, is forming a stakeholder group to meet in November and December (probably no more than 4 meetings, likely 2 hours each) to work with them and a firm that will be offering technical...