Learning From Massachusetts and Utah Exchanges
The Oregon Legislature is grappling with the role that Oregon's Health Insurance Exchange will take and how it will be run and governned. A recent article published by the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute tries to cut through the stereotypes of two...
Ever Seen the Mad As Hell Doctors?
They are going on tour again! Check out this map The Mad As Hell Doctors (MAHD) follow up on their landmark 2009 national and 2010 California tours with spirited rallies in western Oregon counties during the next few weeks. Their program features music by local...
Is Sugar Toxic?
Gary Taubes is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation independent investigator in health policy and the author of “Why We Get Fat.” He has been studying diet and health for a very long time. In this lengthy-but-very-readable article in the New York Times, he examines the...
How to Save a Trillion Bucks
Food writer Mark Bittman gets it. If we want to save our economy, we need to reduce preventable illness. It's that simple, and that hard. He writes: In the scheme of things, saving the 38 billion bucks that Congress seems poised to agree upon is not a big deal. A big...
Governor Kitzhaber Proposes to Lower Cost, Improve Care
Governor Kitzhaber has proposed changes to the Oregon Health Plan that would provide lump sum payments to Coordinate Care Organizations around the state which would have flexibility to spend funds in ways that improve the care of the patient, eliminating roadblocks...
Legacy Health lowers costs while saving lives
We Can Do Better endorses the "Triple Aim," which is to: improve the health of a defined population; reduce or contain per capita costs; and to improve the experience of users of the system. Legacy has taken some key steps that help on all three counts. Writing for...
Our 2011 Policy Focus
Our Community Leadership Council members have identified several policy objectives so far for 2011. You can see our 2011 Policy Focus, which describes our interest in both our experience with health care and our desire to move toward health. progress in developing the...
200 Countries, 4 Minutes and Stats on Health
Hans Rosling shows international statistics in a whole new light, using animation to show how far we've progressed and how that has impacted our health over time. Some people think that facts influence decisions. We need more than facts (this video plotted more than...
Top Federal Official Says Oregon Can Be a Model for Health Care
Writing in the Salem Journal, Peter Wong reports: A top federal official said Thursday that he's looking to Oregon as a model for providing better care and improving people's health while restraining costs — all goals of the national health-care overhaul that Congress...
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