insurance

State Regulators Approve Regence Rate Increase

Regence individual plan holders face nearly 15 percent rate increases after 26 percent jump last year
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May 8, 2009 -- State insurance regulators approved another wallet busting premium increase today. Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon will be allowed to increase premiums on individual health plans by 14.7 percent in July. Read More >>

Employers Lead in Designing Insurance

Under the plan, patients would pay more for low back surgery
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May 6, 2009 -- Large employers could get a break in their insurance rates next January under a plan being designed by a health leadership task force. Read More >>

We Can't Afford to Wait

Advocates rally for House reform bills
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May 7, 2009 -- Advocates hold high a banner for drawing down all available federal funds to cover 180,000 Oregonians, and for addressing both system reform and expansion during this legislative session. Read More >>

Legislators Close to Deal on Provider Tax

Details still sketchy as deal nears to insure every child and 100,000 adults
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April 30, 2009 -- Sen. Alan Bates (D-Ashland) expects to announce a deal next week that will settle months of debate on taxing hospitals and health insurers to expand the Oregon Health Plan. Read More >>

Massive Reform Bill Inches Forward

Cost saving measures come first while harder decisions are left for next legislature
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April 30, 2009 -- Rep. Mitch Greenlick (D-Portland) has done his part. As chairman of the House Health Care Committee, Greenlick passed the most sweeping piece of healthcare reform legislation this state has ever seen. Read More >>

Oregon Health Plan Fosters Insurance Research

A lottery system created to decide who receives insurance through the Oregon Health Plan is offering researchers a rare chance to study the benefits of health coverage.
Originally in The Oregonian
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April 25, 2009 -- By tracking insured and uninsured Oregonians, researchers hope to test how health insurance affects a person's access to care, doctor visits, hospital stays and trips to the emergency room.
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Regence Loses Major Public Employee Contract

Regence, which has insured state employees for 20 years, acknowledges losing the heart of its business
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April 23, 2009 -- Regence BlueCross BlueShield has suffered a major defeat, losing a statewide contract worth millions of dollars to Providence Health Plans. Read More >>

Pound Wise and Penny Foolish

Personal experience shows that short-sighted insurance denials cost more in the end.
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Healthcare reform seems to be on everyone’s mind. There is a definite need to push through the morass and work toward real healthcare reform. The “fluff” or “pie in the sky” statements may sound wonderful as they flash across our television screens, but they really mean nothing. It’s time for action, not just posing for the media.  Read More >>

Executives Should Roll Back Their Salaries

TheLundReport.org makes its first splash on the pages of The Sunday Oregonian
Originally in The Oregonian, Sunday Opinion section
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April 19, 2009 -- It's time to call a halt to the excessive salaries and bonuses earned by Oregon health insurance executives. Who gives them the right to draw huge salaries while increasing our insurance premiums and causing more people to forgo health coverage?
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OSPIRG Takes on Premium Spikes

Can insurance rate regulation overcome the industry's high-powered lobbying efforts?
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April 15, 2009 -- The Oregon insurance industry faces a showdown from consumer advocacy groups, small businesses and unions that want stronger regulation of premium increases. Read More >>
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