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Businesses Shift Premiums to Workers, Uninsured Rise

The latest figures show Oregon's uninsured rate is likely rising
September 22, 2010 -- The affordability of medical insurance cropped up this month as studies showed the number of uninsured Americans rose by 4.4 million and that employers are shifting the burden of rising premiums to workers. Read More >>

Federal Health Reforms to Save Oregonians Billions

Federal reforms will reduce Oregon's uninsured population by 65 percent while leaving 240,000 behind
August 11, 2010 -- As a result of the massive federal healthcare law enacted this year, Oregon families and individuals could save around $1.8 billion by 2019, according to the Office of Oregon Health Policy and Research. Read More >>

Retired Doc Fears Burnout for New Recruits

Where are the doctors, nurses and medical staff to be found for these 32 million people?
June 16, 2010 -- Perhaps our government expects the medical profession to reorder its established patient-doctor relationship while expanding the present physician workload to accommodate 32 million more people who now lack full care. Read More >>

Regence Tells Brokers to Oppose Premium Tax in Health Reform Bill

The $6.7 billion tax to cover the uninsured will supposedly be passed onto consumers
December 18, 2009 -- In an email to brokers and agents, Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon tells them to urge their elected representatives to vote against the healthcare reform bill in Congress because it's estimated to raise premiums on those who have insurance. Read More >>

Healthcare Charges Under the Knife

As healthcare reform swirls around who pays and not what they pay, health insurers point fingers at medical providers for charging exorbitant prices that few know are negotiable.
Originally at Miller-McCune.com
August 28, 2009 -- If you paid sticker price on the last new car you bought, you might expect to pay about 15 percent more than you would with some negotiating. If you paid full price on a recent knee surgery, you could pay 500 percent more than market rate. And who knew you could even negotiate? Read More >>

Greenlick Concedes Lawmakers Punted Tough Questions

Leading reformist gets praise yet disappointment for what legislature left out of critical reform
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July 23, 2009 -- Oregon's Legislature "avoided all of the hard questions" when it dealt with healthcare reform, according to Rep. Mitch Greenlick (D-Portland), who spoke to a group of health reform advocates earlier in the week.  Read More >>

Kaufmann to Lead New Healthy Kids Office

Advocate who led drive to insure children will now lead $11 million budget to fulfill plan
July 8, 2009 -- Cathy Kaufmann, MSW, has been tapped to lead the new office of Healthy Kids at the Department of Human Services. As the policy and communications director for Children First for Oregon, she was a strong advocate of the healthcare expansion that will provide coverage to 80,000 children during the next two years. Read More >>

Provider Tax is Settled for Good

After weeks of anticipation, legislators agree to tax hospitals and insurers
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May 28, 2009 -- Uninsured Oregonians can rejoice. Legislative leaders reached agreement on a hospital and health insurance tax to cover 140,000 Oregonians.  Together their dollars will result in $2 billion in federal matching funds over the next four years and create an estimated 3,600 new healthcare jobs. 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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One-Third Went Without Health Insurance

One-in-three Oregonians spent part of last two years uninsured.
Originally at Public News Service
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April 1, 2009 -- About one in three Oregonians younger than age 65 has gone without health insurance for at least a portion of the last two years, according to a new report from Families USA, a national health care reform advocacy group.
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