CLC Committee: Health Policy

Group Description:

From the Structure for Growth & Action:
Short- and long-term goals, strategies and action steps; explore/recommend policy/political positions; organization building (i.e., drafting bylaws). Investigate arguments for/against issues and policies developed here and elsewhere, including financial models, public opinion, historical and fiscal data, other stakeholder positions; methods of health care delivery; investigate and validate assumptions; philosophies of maintaining health and delivering care. Develop and implement programs to educate membership and general public about AM policies and positions.

Staff: Liz Baxter (liz@wecandobetter.org)

True Health Care Reform

Submitted by Lurelle Robbins on Wed, 01/27/2010 - 7:44pm

Traditional Medicine

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Diagnose Disease

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Upcoming Defend Oregon Phone Banking

Submitted by David Pollack on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 8:07pm

I'm passing on this information on Defend Oregon phone banking that will be done next week to help inform prospective voters about the upcoming tax initiative ballot measures. A lot of folks don't know or understand this issue and its importance, including the impact on the state budget, including health related budgets, if the tax measures fail.

Howard Dean in Portland

Submitted by Liz Baxter on Fri, 07/31/2009 - 12:27pm

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

Submitted by Bill Andrews on Fri, 07/31/2009 - 11:34am

Liz Baxter and I attended the ‘Oregon Health Information Technology (HIT) Stakeholder Engagement Meeting' in Salem on Thursday July 23.

End of Session Celebration

Submitted by Liz Baxter on Wed, 07/22/2009 - 9:35am

Hosted by SAFE: United for a Healthy Oregon, you're invited to a reception to celebrate Oregon's big step forward on health reform with the passage of HB 2009 and HB 2116. IF you have questions you can call Chris Coughlin at 503-312-8178.

Wear your WCDB t-shirt if you have one; if you don't have one let us know and Erick will get one to you for the next event!

Start Date and Time:

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 11:00am

End Date and Time:

Tue, 07/21/2009 - 1:00pm

End of Session Celebration

Submitted by Liz Baxter on Wed, 07/22/2009 - 9:34am

Wear your WCDB t-shirt if you have one; if you don't have one let us know and Erick will get one to you for the next event!

Start Date and Time:

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 11:00am

End Date and Time:

Tue, 07/21/2009 - 1:00pm

Both HB2116 and HB2009 are passed by Oregon House

Submitted by Liz Baxter on Mon, 06/08/2009 - 12:06pm

Next step - vote on the floor of the Oregon Senate, possibly as soon as Wednesday. If you have not contacted your Senator yet, now is the time to do so.

Liz

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HB2116 Sent to Ways and Means Committee; HB2009 Work Session Today

Submitted by Liz Baxter on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 8:53am

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.

HB2009 added to Ways and Means Subcommittee Schedule

Submitted by Liz Baxter on Wed, 05/27/2009 - 8:33am

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

Start Date and Time:

Thu, 05/28/2009 - 6:00am

Blumenauer and Howard Dean to hold meeting in Portland

Submitted by Liz Baxter on Wed, 05/27/2009 - 8:26am

Here is the page where you can sign up:

http://www.earlblumenauer.com/media/health_care_signup.html

It says that he and Governor Dean will hold a Health Care Town Hall at Portland Community College, Cascade Campus on June 5th at 3:30 pm.

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Free Webinar with Berwick, Davis and Fisher

Submitted by Liz Baxter on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 12:02pm

Join Berwick, Davis, and Fisher for a Webinar on How Physicians Can Help Achieve Health Reform Legislation that will fundamentally change the U.S. health care system is now being shaped in Washington, D.C. And this time, nearly all stakeholders are at the negotiating table. Join a Commonwealth Fund/Institute for Healthcare Improvement webinar this Friday, May 22, 2009, at 11 a.m., E.D.T., as three of the nation's leading thinkers in health policy and practice outline how physicians and others can help create a health care system that offers high-quality, affordable care for all Americans while containing costs.

Webinar panelists Donald M. Berwick, M.D., M.P.P., a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health and president and chief executive officer of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement; Karen Davis, Ph.D., president of The Commonwealth Fund; and Elliott S. Fisher, M.D., M.P.H., professor and associate director of Population Health and Policy at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, will address quality improvement, integrated delivery, and payment reform as well as cost-saving measures that can help finance the coverage of the uninsured. A question-and-answer session will follow the panelists' presentations.

To register for this free one-hour online meeting, go to
http://commonwealthfundevents.webex.com.

Start Date and Time:

Fri, 05/22/2009 - 1:00am

End Date and Time:

Fri, 05/22/2009 - 2:00am

CANCELLED: Human Service Subcommittee of Ways and Means: HB2009

Submitted by Liz Baxter on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 11:35am

This meeting and discussion of HB2009 has now been cancelled.

These schedules are subject to change, so we will update this event if we hear there has been a change to the schedule.

You can also listen to/watch live streaming of committees and floor sessions at this link

http://oregonchannel.org/rams.htm (requires Windows Media Player)

Start Date and Time:

Tue, 05/26/2009 - 6:00am

HB 2009 and SB 856 Comparison

Submitted by Liz Baxter on Mon, 05/04/2009 - 10:26am

Attached is the side-by-side comparison completed by Oregon Health Policy and Research. This will give you a brief update on how the bills are similar and how they differ. Here is the email sent to several organizations from Carol Robinson that accompanied the spreadsheet:

Latest Update from Health Fund Board/Oregon Health Policy and Research

Submitted by Liz Baxter on Thu, 04/30/2009 - 11:25am

Please see this link to read their description of status of HB 2009 and other bills:

http://www.oregon.gov/OHPPR/HFB/index.shtml

Liz

"The Case for a Public Plan Choice in National Health Reform"

Submitted by Liz Baxter on Fri, 12/19/2008 - 12:46pm

Many of you have commented on the work of Jacob Hacker, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Here is a link to a recent report below.

Professor Hacker argues the case that a public insurance plan is a crucial component of national health reform.

Liz

Terrific interactive web site for global data comparisons

Submitted by David Pollack on Wed, 09/24/2008 - 2:11pm

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

My initial analysis of the OHFB report

Submitted by David Pollack on Tue, 09/09/2008 - 11:08pm

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