Corvallis

Corvallis-Philomath-Albany area members will want to see and discuss "Money Driven Medicine"  a film describing what's wrong with health care in America and how to fix it.  It will be shown at the Corvallis public library at 2 p.m. Saturday, November 21st . 

Excerpts from the film were shown recently on OPB on the Bill Moyers show.  The film is based on the book  by the same name, written by Maggie Mahar, investigative reporter. 

The Nov. 21st event  is sponsored by Mid-Valley Health Care Advocates, Corvallis chapter, Physicians for National Health Program, Interfaith Health Care Network and local members of the Archimedes Movement.  The film is free and open to the public.

http://www.moneydrivenmedicine.org/

From the Corvallis Gazette Times:

Rabble-rousing labor singer Anne Feeney will bring her "Sing Out! for Single-Payer Health Care Road Show" to Central Park at 7 p.m. Monday to shore up support for a national health plan, as opposed to the "public plan option" being touted by President Obama as part of the reform package being hashed out in Congress.
 
 Also on the bill are Raina Rose, Chris Chandler, Paul Benoit, Jason Luckett, David Rovics, Green Mountain Grass, Patrick Dodd and Citizens´ Band.
 
 Feeney and a rotating cast of fellow performers have been working their way up the West Coast this summer to stump for a single-payer health system, which has broad support among reform groups but faces stiff resistance from insurance companies and other factions of the U.S. health care industry.
 
 "When I learned about this I stepped up to the plate and said, `I can organize this in Benton County,´ " said Paul Hochfeld, a Corvallis emergency room physician and member of Physicians for a National Health Program.
 
 "It´s about having fun, but it´s also about advocating for single-payer health care."
 
 Hochfeld called the road show a "Chautauqua-style" event with a strong educational component. Many of the musicians will perform songs relating to health care, and after the opening set, Hochfeld and others will address the crowd about the issue.
 
 "It´ll be a real festive kind of thing," said local health reform advocate Betty Johnson.
 
 The show will take place at the Central Park Gazebo, near the intersection of Southwest Eighth Street and Madison Avenue. Spectators can bring lawn chairs and blankets or sit on the grass.
 
 Donations will be accepted to defray expenses for the performers and organizers.
 
 The event is sponsored by the Oregon chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program, Mid-Valley Health Care Advocates and the Corvallis chapter of the Archimedes Movement.

It has been off and on and off again, but it has been added to the Human Services Subcommittee agenda for Thursday at approximately 1:30. It's best to check and make sure before heading to Salem. 

You can check committee information at http://www.leg.state.or.us/comm/

Daily schedules are printed and can be found at http://www.leg.state.or.us/09reg/pubs/commsch.pdf

This hearing has been postponed. We'll re-post it when we have updated infromation.

Public Hearing and Work Session on HB 2116 A

HB 2116 A would fund expansion of the Oregon Health Plan to cover 80,000 children and up to 100,000 low-income adults in Oregon by raising the revenue to match over one billion dollars in federal money. (The match ration varies by program, but much of it is $2 federal for every $1 state.)

Date: May 21, 2009
Time: 8:00 A.M.
Room: HR A

"Creates Health System Fund to fund medical assistance and private health option and to pay refunds of hospital assessment."