At an earlier Policy Committee meeting, I mentioned the web site that was presented at a recent Oregon Health Forum conference.  That site, www.gapminder.org, based at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, is really quite impressive.  It has some off the shelf charts to compare the level of economic, health, population and other national data on any and a

During today's meeting, Paul and Marvin mentioned the lack of moral/ethical anchoring for the health care agenda (my paraphrase).  I just wanted folks to know that there was a very interesting conference in Medford in April on the ethical basis of the OHFB's effort.  The white paper from that conference, which was sponsored by the OHSU Center for Ethics in Healthcare, is attached.

I haven't had time yet to figure out how to use Google Docs, but wanted to share my analysis of the report, especially since some others have had a more discouraged response to it.  I may be naive or just reading more into it than it deserves, but I do feel that there is much to be supported in the report, even though there are many likely hazards and obstacles to its implementation and the si