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Lobbying Congress for Medicare Reimbursement

Bipartisan consensus that funding formula is broke – question is how to fix it

July 29, 2013 -- Just removed from a whirlwind trip to the nation’s capital, Bend-based physical therapist and consultant Tannus Quatre reported encouraging news in the struggle to reform Medicare reimbursement practices in the U.S.

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Jeff McDonald

Small Business Reality Check on Affordable Care Act: It’s Here to Stay… and That’s a Darn Good Thing

Republished with Permission From The Hill

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Jim Houser

Optimism Abounds in Cover Oregon Land – Is It Real?

The author challenges whether the subsidies offered by the health insurance exchange will live up to their promises.

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John Gridley

What's New with The Lund Report

Our breaking news stories and commentaries are giving The Lund Report the distinction of being the prominent source of health policy news in the Pacific Northwest. Learn more about our evolving role in this timely article.

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Diane Lund-Muzikant

Privacy Rights Can Threaten Physician-Patient Relationship

The author comments on Edward Snowden’s leak of top-secret documents asserting that we should demand a right to privacy, which is our fundamental intellectual and spiritual property.

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Dr. Kris Alman

Insurer Considers Treatment Experimental, Yet Patient Still Alive Six Years Later

An article appearing in Scientific American discusses the Blood Brain Barrier Disruption procedure pioneered by Dr. Ed Neuwelt of OHSU which has been successful.

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Joanie Lafferty

Hospital-to-Hospital Clinical Integration Programs Represent Good Alternative

Such programs can improve outcomes, reduce medical errors and hospital lengths of stay and lower infection rates, according to the author

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Paul R. DeMuro

Cost of Coverage – The Real Measure of Health Reform Impact

The author who runs an insurance agency in Roseburg, contends that only low-income Oregonians and people on Medicaid will benefit from the insurance reforms under the Affordable Care Act

OPINION – May 20, 2013 -- Prior to actual plan pricing being available, everyone, including me, tried to predict how much the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would increase premiums.

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John Gridley

What is the Successful Path to Healthcare Cost Containment?

The author not only shares his preferences for a health plan but encourages readers to come up with their own alternatives.

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Stephen A. Gregg

What’s Wrong with Healthcare Reform

Steve Gregg suggests that we follow the money and look at the politically and proprietary powerful healthcare system as a starting place, followed by a conflicted public sector that looks as healthcare as a remaining opportunity for growth.

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Stephen Gregg

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