The legislative committee will look at the addiction crisis from a wider perspective than Measure 110 alone
Oct 17, 2023
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Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum talks with an official from Planned Parenthood before a news conference about the abortion pill on Sunday, March 12, 2023.
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LYNNE TERRY/OREGON CAPITAL CHRONICLE
A coalition of 24 Democratic attorneys general filed a brief with the Supreme Court urging it to reverse a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling making it harder for patients to access mifepristone
Oct 17, 2023
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Sarah Holland, a director at Portland-based Central City Concern, (right) speaks about housing and health care with Oregon Medicaid director Dana Hittle (middle) and Marin Arreola, a member of the Governor’s Racial Justice Council. The group spoke about Oregon’s Medicaid expansion at CCO Oregon’s annual conference about health care in Salem.
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BEN BOTKIN/OREGON CAPITAL CHRONICLE
Oregon’s new Medicaid plan will offer people help with housing and food as state faces homelessness crisis
Oct 6, 2023
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Calli Ross tends to her disabled 8-year-old son, Tensy, after watching the Oregon Senate in the Capitol on Friday, June 23, 2023. Having a disability can qualify children for Medicaid.
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BEN BOTKIN/OREGON CAPITOL CHRONICLE
State health officials are checking to see whether kids in the state have been wrongly kicked off the free health care as they have been elsewhere
Oct 4, 2023
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Senate Majority Leader Kate Lieber, D-Beaverton, and Minority Leader Tim Knopp, R-Bend, work together in the Senate Committee on Rules on Thursday, June 15, 2023. They will both be on the new Joint Interim Committee on Addiction and Community Safety Response.
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BEN BOTKIN/OREGON CAPITAL CHRONICLE
The number of Oregonians infected with COVID has steadily increased since late spring, and the number of people infected with the flu and RSV is low but expected to rise