Act Now for a Healthy Oregon -- the healthcare advocacy arm of the Service Employees International Union, Local 49 -- has painted a damning snapshot of the state of healthcare coverage in Oregon and the continued unaffordability of the health system in its latest report: “In the Red for a Hospital Bed.”
A high cost estimate for the continued use of the federal health exchange has led the Department of Consumer & Business Services to consider other options, but consumers and insurance brokers might have good reason to be skeptical of the state abandoning a smooth-running federal website for another state-based website.
The author says that several factors have major effects on dental health, especially diet, personal dental habits, professional care and genetics. But based on a wealth of credible data, fluoridation isn’t one of them.
