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Two Briefs Issued by OCPP
The Oregon Center for Public Policy (OCPP) issued two briefs on the Oregon Health Insurance Exchange, pointing to challenges around adverse selection. The Oregon Legislature passed SB 99, which authorized creation of a state insurance exchange, but before implementation moves forward, a business plan must be approved during the 5-week 2012 Oregon session. Attention will be paid to whether the …
Read MoreOregon races to transform health care in time to balance state budget
Bill Graves, writing in The Oregonian: Care teams at Mid-County and other clinics operated by Multnomah County offer a glimpse of the future for the Oregon Health Plan’s 600,000 low-income and disabled people on Medicaid and Medicare. The centerpiece of health reform legislation passed this year calls for teams of doctors, dentists, therapists, nurses, health coaches and others to deliver consistent, integrated primary …
Read MoreOregon Health Authority News
Here’s the latest bulletin from the Oregon Health Authority and the Oregon Health Policy Board. To get email updates from the OHA, please sign up at their website. News this Month First HB 3650 work groups meet (summaries of each group’s first meeting in August) September legislative days Oregon Health Insurance Exchange Board announced AIM 2011: Innovating for Healthy Oregonians …
Read MoreWrap-up Report on Oregon 2011 Legislative Session
The League of Women Voters® of Oregon has produced an in-depth summary of this year’s session. Like the rest of the report, the section on health attempts to report on both the bills passed and the other issues discussed: Public Health Division: Early childhood prevention programs have been provided under the Public Health umbrella. Babies First, Maternal and Child Health and Women, …
Read MoreFood’s New Foot Soldiers Against Childhood Obesity
In his New York Times column, Mark Bittman writes about FoodCorps, a national service program that aims to improve nutrition education for children, develop school gardening projects and change what’s being served on school lunch trays. Is FoodCorps necessary? The organizations that are fighting childhood obesity on the front lines seem to think so: 108 groups from 39 states and the District …
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