by David Pollack | Dec 3, 2006 | Learn
In spite of Oregon’s long, progressive social and health policy tradition, our mental health system has fallen far and fast in recent years. Economics and indifference have reversed substantial achievements. With more than 33 years in the public mental health...
by Liz Baxter | Dec 3, 2006 | Archimedes Archive, Blog
In our early days we used a website that was primarily focused on interactive blogging and comments to develop a set of principles and a framework for approaching reform. This link will take you to an archived copy of our blog through...
by John Kitzhaber | Nov 30, 2006 | Learn, We Can Do Better - News
In a recent op-ed piece in the Oregonian, Steve Gregg challenged the various health reform proposals – including the Archimedes Movement – to focus on cost containment, and implied that all of the efforts underway are simply trying to find more money to finance the...
by John Kitzhaber | Sep 12, 2006 | Learn, We Can Do Better - News
I want to bring you up to speed on where we are with the Archimedes Movement, to provide you with some background information to help focus the next phase of discussion, and to outline what we’re asking you to do during the rest of September. Toward that end, I refer...
by John Kitzhaber | Sep 6, 2006 | Learn, We Can Do Better - News
Last October I lost my mother at the age of 88. Like most elderly people, both she and my father wanted to die at home–not in an acute care hospital bed. Indeed, throughout my political career senior advocates have supported legislation to create “durable powers...
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