Election Results Rife With Implications for Oregonians' Health Care
Democrat Tina Kotek will be Oregon's next governor, her party is losing its supermajorities in Salem, and the ballot measure making health care a fundamental right has won.
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Democrat Tina Kotek will be Oregon's next governor, her party is losing its supermajorities in Salem, and the ballot measure making health care a fundamental right has won.
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The Democratic candidate says she’ll focus on bringing down costs as well as increasing access to care and pay for frontline workers.
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Hospital groups and labor unions are picking their favorites, but bigger campaign donations will flow closer to the May primary and the November election.
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Now running for governor, the longtime legislative leader introduced a bill to fight community violence with Medicaid funds as she was leaving.
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Gov. Kate Brown -- and lawmakers -- hope that federal authorities will give Oregon money to help plug the budget hole before another special session later this summer.
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Updated at 3:23 p.m.Thursday, March 5, 2020
Democratic legislative leaders declared the session over on Thursday, blaming the failure on Republican lawmakers who walked out to prevent a quorum and kill a cap-and-trade bill.
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Speaker Tina Kotek has added $20 million to her proposal to help Oregon cities deal with rising homelessness.
Rep. Mitch Greenlick, D-Portland, rolled out his coordinated care organization reform bill on Monday with the support of House Speaker Tina Kotek, D-Portland.
Greenlick intends to build on the success of locally driven reforms to the state Medicaid program by requiring CCOs to be more transparent and more accountable while protecting the public investment in the health of the state’s children, low-income adults and disabled people.
August 27, 2013 — Health insurance companies have poured more than $550,000 into state and local elections in Oregon since the start of 2011, with over 40 percent of that money spent by Regence BlueCross BlueShield, which invested $236,000 in its preferred candidates and causes.