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Since mid-2013, pharmaceutical and medical device companies have spent more than $42.8 million to entertain, feed, train, pamper and even directly pay doctors in Oregon, according to a massive dataset that investigative journalists at nonprofit ProPublica compiled and made available to The Lund Report

Low-wage workers with job-based health insurance were significantly more likely than their higher-income colleagues to wind up in the emergency department or be admitted to the hospital, in particular for conditions that with good primary care shouldn’t result in hospitalization

In the article, “Insurance Commissioner Tackles Surprise Balance Billing for Consumers,” we first acknowledge and applaud the Oregon legislature’s serious efforts to protect consumers from balance billing for emergency and surprise bills.

Sen. Laurie Monnes Anderson, D-Gresham, canceled a vote on Senate Bill 754, which would raise Oregon’s legal age for tobacco and e-cigarettes to 21, telling The Lund Report the bill would return to the agenda “when she had 16 votes.”

The Joint Committee on Tax Credits will debate the scope and the length of the tax break’s extension, which is seen as critical to maintaining providers in rural areas, but criticized for offering an unneeded perk to wealthy physicians in affluent small towns.

The announcement was revealed on his Linked In page.