Oregon 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...
Oregon 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)...
Wrap-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...
Food’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...
Oregon Health Authority Seeks Public Input
I am on one of the Transformation Committees and just received this from the Oregon Health Authority. All Oregonians should take time to provide input. Dear work group members, The Oregon Health Authority work group public input page is now up and running and ready...
Cut Medicare, Help Patients?
In an op-ed piece for the New York Times, Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Jeffrey B. Liebman warn against "meat-cleaver" cuts and advocate for smart cuts to Medicare: Medicare is going to be cut. That is inevitable. There is no way to solve the nation’s long-term debt problem...
Preaching a Healthy Diet in the Deep-Fried Delta
The National Baptist Convention, which represents some seven million people in nearly 10,000 churches, is ramping up a far-reaching health campaign to change the way their members eat. The New York Times reports: Despite a dirge of grim health statistics, an epidemic...
Liz Baxter Nominated to Oregon Health Insurance Exchange Board
Liz Baxter, executive director of We Can Do Better, was nominated by Gov. John Kitzhaber to serve on the Oregon Health Insurance Exchange Board. The Governor's press release describes the board: The Board will oversee the development of a Health Insurance Exchange for...
Reducing Health IT Disparities: Feds Looking for Comments
The Federal Health IT Strategic Plan was released in March 2011 and it states that it will strive to: Support health information technology (heath IT) benefits for all. All Americans should have equal access to quality health care. This includes the benefits conferred...
Best, cheapest health care: stay well
This may fall into the category of stating the obvious, but the Corvallis Gazette-Times ran this editorial this week. It was a follow-up to a speech given locally by Governor Kitzhaber. Here's how it begins: Gov. John Kitzhaber brought his health care reform pitch to...
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