As a neuro-immunology specialist in Portland, I get a front row seat to witness the devastating effects on COVID-19 on my patients. And no, I don’t mean the effects of the virus on their neurological health.
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It’s up to senators in Salem to decide whether voters should have the final say on making affordable health care a state right.
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In a year in which universal health care is front and center on the political stage, Oregonians may get to cast a vote on the issue in November.
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A new poll indicates there is broad support in Oregon for universal health care, with many residents in favor of funding it with a tax.
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Oregon appears poised to embark on a sweeping study of how to establish “universal health care,” although just what that means would be up to the task force the Oregon Legislature would create.
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SALEM – A legislative session marked by partisan tension is entering its final weeks with plenty of unfinished business on the health care front.
The first congressional hearing on a “Medicare-for-all” bill in at least a decade took place Tuesday, but without the usual phalanx of T-shirted supporters — or even the presidential candidates — who have been pushing the bill.
Industrial nations worldwide offer universal health care in several forms, while the United States lags and may — on a federal level — lack the political will or capability to make a significant change, according to panelists who spoke Wednesday at the Oregon Health Forum.
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The Oregon Legislature launched a panel 10 months ago to develop a roadmap for affordable statewide universal health care. The task was ambitious. Similar efforts in other states have gotten nowhere, and there is scant support at the federal level for expanding Medicaid.
The need for the U.S. to fix its broken health system by providing universal care is a topic that has come up again this election cycle, with many politicians and constituents calling for health care reform.
