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The Health Priorities Film & Discussion Tour - Stop #1: Sweet Home, OR
Team Archimedes is hittin' the road again! This time in a two-part tour to promote a series of film viewings and discussions across Oregon. The tour's first leg runs May 24th through 28th.
We'll be visiting rural communities in Oregon with populations smaller than 10,000 – places that have had little outreach from other organizations or legislative committees. In each town we'll host a community dialog on the film series Unnatural Causes(video) and the topic of "health priorities." The tour
is made possible by a grant from the Northwest Health Foundation.
On Monday, May 24th - we'll be in Sweet Home, OR at the Sweet Home Senior Center from 5:30-7:30pm.
Please join us for a stirring discussion and to add your thoughts and concerns to the mix. We want to hear from you!
If you would like to find out more about this event or can help spread the word - please email Matt@wecandobetter.org.
We realize that we're creeping into your dinner time so light food and refreshments will be provided.
Start Date and Time:
Mon, 05/24/2010 - 5:30pm
End Date and Time:
Mon, 05/24/2010 - 7:30pm
Location:
Sweet Home Senior Center
880 18th Avenue
Sweet Home, OR, 97386Educational Forum: "How does the newly passed federal health reform affect you and Oregon?" (Corvallis)
Thursday April 15 at 7 p.m.
At the Corvallis-Benton County public library, Amy Fauver, Director of the Legislative and Government Affairs Office of the Oregon Health Authority, will speak about the newly passed federal legislation and how it will affect Oregonians individually and how it fits into Oregon’s health planning. A Q&A period will follow.
Co-sponsors---Corvallis and Albany Archimedes chapters, League of Women Voters, Mid-valley health care advocates, Corvallis chapter PNHP, and the Interfaith Health Care Network.
For further questions please contact Roberta Hall - rhall@oregonstate.edu
Start Date and Time:
Thu, 04/15/2010 - 7:00pm
End Date and Time:
Thu, 04/15/2010 - 9:00pm
Location:
Corvallis-Benton County Public Library
645 Northwest Monroe Avenue
Corvallis, OR, 97330Eugene Community Forum - DHS and Oregon Health Authority
From their website:
Help the Department of Human Services and the Oregon Health Authority work toward safe, independent and healthy futures for all Oregonians. Share your ideas and help shape the DHS and OHA budgets for 2011–2013. Take part in conversations about how to protect and empower children, families, seniors and people with disabilities. Get involved with OHA’s work to build a healthier Oregon by lowering health care costs, increasing access and improving quality of care.
For more information, visit www.oregon.gov/dhs or www.oregon.gov/oha
Reasonable accommodations will be provided as needed for individuals requesting assistive hearing devices or large-print materials. Individuals needing these types of accommodations should e-mail us at dhs.oha@state.or.us at least 48 hours in advance of the meeting. A sign language interpreter is scheduled for this event.
Start Date and Time:
Wed, 05/12/2010 - 1:00pm
End Date and Time:
Wed, 05/12/2010 - 4:00pm
Location:
Lane Community College: Center for Meeting and Learning
4000 SE 30th Avenue
Eugene, ORForum with State Legislators in Corvallis
What health care reform was accomplished in the 2009 session of the Oregon Legislature?
What is the unfinished business in health care reform?
Representatives Sara Gelser and Jim Thompson and Senator Frank Morse will respond to these important questions at the health care forum, 7 p.m. Thursday, September 3rd at the public library, 645 NW Monroe, Corvallis. There will also be plenty of time for YOUR QUESTIONS.
Pass the word to your friends
Start Date and Time:
Thu, 09/03/2009 - 12:00pm
Town Hall Update
Wow, the town halls are hot in the news - but not because the media is talking about what we need in terms of health reform, or how the health crisis is hurting Americans and American businesses, but because of the sound of people trying to disrupt the town hall process by yelling and screaming.
Speak Up for Health Reform Done Right
Don't stand by and watch.
Talking Points: What to tell Congress during their August recess
The message below is the result of a collaborative effort among Archimedes Movement Community Leadership Council members and staff. Members of Congress are holding town hall meetings all over the country in August. We're maintaining a list of the Oregon ones here.
Now is the time to share your views on health reform.
Congressman Peter DeFazio: Town hall in Junction City, Oregon
Oregon Congressman Peter DeFazio will hold a town hall at the Junction City Hall on Tuesday, August 18th.
Should you attend, please speak up and ask the congressman a question. Here are some possible talking points from which you might formulate your question:
We support comprehensive health reform that would accomplish the following:
- Every U.S. resident will have access to a clearly defined set of essential health services.
- The Triple Aim will drive the design of the health care system, in that the health system demonstrates:
- Improvement in the overall health of the defined population,
- Reduced per-capita costs, and
- Improvement in the individual patient experience in terms of clinical outcomes, patient safety and patient satisfaction.
- The business models within our health system must realign financial incentives to make them consistent with the Triple Aim. On example would be to look at eliminating fee-for-service billing, and instead pay providers to keep people healthy and out of the hospital.
- Prevention, health education, and wellness services will be provided and promoted.
- Disparities in access to an essential benefits package and subsequently health outcomes between people of different socioeconomic and demographic groups is not acceptable and therefore should be eliminated.
- The delivery system must be transformed to provide greater access to effective primary care and chronic disease management, while specialty care must be more effectively linked and integrated with primary care providers.
- Electronic Health Records should be developed and implemented to promote and support evidence based decisions and improved efficiency of health care delivery.
- We must include development of a competitive, publicly-funded insurance option that gives Americans affordable and fair choice in how their insurance is purchased.
- We must explicitly acknowledge that public resources are finite. Therefore, public funds must be focused on providing the services which will cause the greatest improvement in population health. Many people may be able to purchase services that are more than those that are provided as part of the essential benefit package available to all residents and they should be allowed to do so. This is true of Medicare where close to 80% of Medicare beneficiaries have some type of supplemental coverage on top of their traditional Medicare benefit. However, the core benefit must provide a sufficient floor of essential benefits so that buying additional services is not absolutely necessary in order to achieve consistent positive health outcomes.
Start Date and Time:
Tue, 08/18/2009 - 2:00am
End Date and Time:
Tue, 08/18/2009 - 3:00am
Howard Dean in Portland
Howard Dean was in Portland last Friday at Powell's Bookstore giving remarks to a crowd of about 200 people about a book he has just finished called Howard Dean's Prescription For Real Reform. Rick had been invited to meet with him after the book signing and I tagged along.
Update on Health Information Technology
Liz Baxter and I attended the ‘Oregon Health Information Technology (HIT) Stakeholder Engagement Meeting' in Salem on Thursday July 23.
- Bill Andrews's blog
- Login or register to post comments
- Read more
Voices of Faith for Health Care Reform
A song-festival, short talks, and a plea by members of 10 Corvallis faith groups urging us to talk with our Congress-people about the need to enact universal health care. Open to all!
Start Date and Time:
Wed, 06/24/2009 - 12:00pm
HB2116 Sent to Ways and Means Committee; HB2009 Work Session Today
HB 2116, which would generate revenue needed to pull down matching federal funds for expanding coverage to uninsured children and low income adults, was passed out of Oregon's House Revenue Committee on Thursday and sent to the Joint Ways and Means Committee with a do-pass recommendation.
- Liz Baxter's blog
- Login or register to post comments
- Read more
Public Forum on National Health Care Proposals
Curious about what Washington D.C. is doing about health care reform?
You're invited to a Public Forum on the major National Health Care Proposals by:
- Rep. Pete Stark
- Sen. Ron Wyden
- Pres. Barack Obama
- Rep. John Conyers
Why? Family health care insurance premiums are projected to match total family incomes by the year 2025.
Come learn how our national leaders propose to reverse this trend and build a sustainable and equitable healthcare system for the United States.
Speakers: Chunhuei Chi, Ph.D., Paul Hochfeld, M.D., James Van Olst, M.D. and Chinh Le, M.D.
Moderated by former State Senator Clifford Trow.
Bring your questions, imagination, passion and resolve. Sponsored by Oregon Physicians for a National Health Program, Mid-Valley Health Care Advocates, and Albany and Corvallis Chapters of the Archimedes Movement.
Co-sponsors: League of Women Voters of Corvallis and American Association of University Women.
Start Date and Time:
Tue, 05/05/2009 - 12:00pm
End Date and Time:
Tue, 05/05/2009 - 2:00pm
Send a hand delivered letter to your legislators in just 3 clicks
By now you've heard about the Archimedes Movement Lobby Day in Salem this Thursday, March 26th (there's still time to RSVP). If you're unable to join us then do the next best thing - sign our online letter and we'll make sure to hand deliver it to your legislators and the Governor's office
- Matt Webber's blog
- Login or register to post comments
- Read more
Archimedes Movement Members on KBOO Radio
This coming Monday the 23rd at 11 AM, KBOO will air on its HealthWatch program: "4 Advocates Talk about Health Care Reform." The four are Betty Johnson, Mike Huntington, Joe Zaerr and Roberta Hall.
KBOO is at 100.7 FM in Corvallis, 90.7 in Portland, see the KBOO website for other availabilities, including listening live on the Web.
In this half hour session they'll talk about why House Bill 2009 needs to include a public plan offering health care, and a Health Authority, and why innovations at the state level are important.
If you have ever had any problems getting KBOO, be sure your radio has an aerial -- or just attach a wire to the aerial and raise it toward the ceiling (at my house we use a twistie to attach a wire to a plant hook on the ceiling--works great). If you're in the Portland to Salem area, KBOO is at 90.7--it's 100.7 in Albany and Corvallis.
Start Date and Time:
Mon, 03/23/2009 - 4:00am
End Date and Time:
Mon, 03/23/2009 - 4:30am
Your Job: Keep the Legislature on Course
Three ways to get your message heard in Salem
In the midst of a legislative session with tough economic decisions to be made, it's very easy for the well-intentioned Oregonians serving in our legislature to lose sight of the goals of health reform. We have three ways to help you remind them to be bold and set a course for Oregon's future health system.
- Liz Baxter's blog
- Login or register to post comments
- Read more
Archimedes Movement Film Festival in Albany
The Albany Chapter of the Archimedes Movement presents
a Healthcare Reform Film Festival
a Healthcare Reform Film Festival
January 8th "Health Care for the 21st Century"
Gov. John Kitzhaber tells of the unfortunate condition of our health care system and offers a plan for making it better.
January 15th "Sick Around the World"
Can the U.S. learn anything from other advanced capitalist democracies-United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland-about how to run a health care system?
January 22nd "Big Money/Big Pharma"
How Pharmaceutical Companies, aided by the medical profession, sell new diseases to a gullible public.
January 29th "¡Salud!"
¡Salud! looks at Cuba, a cash-strapped country with what the BBC calls "one of the world's best health systems." From the shores of Africa to the Americas, !Salud! hits the road with some of the 28,000 Cuban health professionals serving in 68 countries, and explores the hearts and minds of international medical students studying medicine for free in Cuba.
Please join us for these free Thursday evening programs.
6:30pm Refreshments
7:00pm Program
Lakeside Center of the Mennonite Village
2180 54th Ave. SE
(Between Clay and Davidson)
Albany, Oregon 97322
Start Date and Time:
Thu, 01/08/2009 - 10:30am
End Date and Time:
Thu, 01/08/2009 - 12:00pm
Archimedes Movement Film Festival in Albany
The Albany Chapter of the Archimedes Movement presents
a Healthcare Reform Film Festival
a Healthcare Reform Film Festival
January 15th "Sick Around the World"
Can the U.S. learn anything from other advanced capitalist democracies-United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland-about how to run a health care system?
January 22nd "Big Money/Big Pharma"
How Pharmaceutical Companies, aided by the medical profession, sell new diseases to a gullible public.
January 29th "¡Salud!"
¡Salud! looks at Cuba, a cash-strapped country with what the BBC calls "one of the world's best health systems." From the shores of Africa to the Americas, !Salud! hits the road with some of the 28,000 Cuban health professionals serving in 68 countries, and explores the hearts and minds of international medical students studying medicine for free in Cuba.
Please join us for these free Thursday evening programs.
6:30pm Refreshments
7:00pm Program
Lakeside Center of the Mennonite Village
2180 54th Ave. SE
(Between Clay and Davidson)
Albany, Oregon 97322
Start Date and Time:
Thu, 01/15/2009 - 10:30am
End Date and Time:
Thu, 01/15/2009 - 12:00pm
Archimedes Movement Film Festival in Albany
The Albany Chapter of the Archimedes Movement presents
a Healthcare Reform Film Festival
a Healthcare Reform Film Festival
Here are the last two films in the series.
January 22nd "Big Money/Big Pharma"
How Pharmaceutical Companies, aided by the medical profession, sell new diseases to a gullible public.
January 29th "¡Salud!"
¡Salud! looks at Cuba, a cash-strapped country with what the BBC calls "one of the world's best health systems." From the shores of Africa to the Americas, !Salud! hits the road with some of the 28,000 Cuban health professionals serving in 68 countries, and explores the hearts and minds of international medical students studying medicine for free in Cuba.Please join us for these free Thursday evening programs.
6:30pm Refreshments
7:00pm Program
Lakeside Center of the Mennonite Village
2180 54th Ave. SE
(Between Clay and Davidson)
Albany, Oregon 97322
Start Date and Time:
Thu, 01/22/2009 - 10:30am
End Date and Time:
Thu, 01/22/2009 - 12:00pm
Archimedes Movement Film Festival in Albany
The Albany Chapter of the Archimedes Movement presents
a Healthcare Reform Film Festival
a Healthcare Reform Film Festival
This is the last film in the series.
January 29th "¡Salud!"
¡Salud! looks at Cuba, a cash-strapped country with what the BBC calls "one of the world's best health systems." From the shores of Africa to the Americas, !Salud! hits the road with some of the 28,000 Cuban health professionals serving in 68 countries, and explores the hearts and minds of international medical students studying medicine for free in Cuba.Please join us for this free Thursday evening program.
6:30pm Refreshments
7:00pm Program
Lakeside Center of the Mennonite Village
2180 54th Ave. SE
(Between Clay and Davidson)
Albany, Oregon 97322
Start Date and Time:
Thu, 01/29/2009 - 10:30am
End Date and Time:
Thu, 01/29/2009 - 12:00pm
