The Lund Report

Governor Brown's Statement Regarding Agency Responses to Portland Air Toxicity

Feb 15, 2016

Tobacco Licensing Bill Clears Senate Health on Party-Line Vote

Sen. Laurie Monnes Anderson and Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward guide the tobacco licensing bill, which has opponents on both sides, through its first hurdle, but must still navigate the Committee on Ways & Means before it reaches the Senate floor.

Feb 12, 2016

House Health Approves Further Study of Basic Health Plan on Partisan Vote

House Bill 4017 will advance a Basic Health Plan proposal for adults under 200 percent of poverty, leading to a possible vote to approve the new, more affordable health insurance plans next year; plans could enter the market in 2018 or 2019. But the new regulations are being resisted by Republicans.

Feb 12, 2016

Wyden, Merkley, Blumenauer Ask EPA’s Help in Portland Over Cadmium and Arsenic Hotspots

Feb 12, 2016

House Clears Bill Restricting CCO Service-Area Changes, But Bates Bill is Dead

At the end of the second week of the session, the Legislature is poised to pass two narrowly tailored bills corralling the actions the Oregon Health Authority took toward CCOs, but more rigorous bills are falling by the wayside.

Feb 12, 2016

FIX IT - Healthcare At The Tipping Point

Feb 11, 2016

President’s Budget Proposal Supports ACHP Priorities

Feb 11, 2016

COMP-Northwest medical students land residency programs across the U.S.

Half of the Oregon students participating in the American Osteopathic Association’s Match Program will go into primary care

Feb 11, 2016

Charlie Sheen and CytoDyn CEO appear together on popular TV show; Sheen very excited to explore possibility of participating in PRO 140 monotherapy trial

Feb 11, 2016

Pharmacists’ Bill Tightening PBM Regulation Passes Senate Health

Negotiations will continue on SB 1505 in the legislative budget committee, as pharmacists claim that a lack of enforcement capability at the Department Consumer & Business Services has led some bad-acting PBMs to ignore the law.

Feb 11, 2016