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Cover Oregon OKs Oregon's Health CO-OP Innovative Plans

June 10, 2013 -- Oregon’s Health CO-OP’s distinctive new benefit plans have been qualified as innovative health plans by Cover Oregon, Oregon’s health insurance exchange.

Jun 10, 2013

DON BAGLIEN WORKED WITH THE LOCAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PROVIDER TO GET HIS 19-YEAR-OLD SON HELP. BUT SINCE HE’S NOW AN ADULT, BAGLIEN WASN’T PRIVY TO HIS MEDICAL HISTORY. THAT MEANT HE COULDN’T INTERVENE AND THINGS GOT WORSE./KRISTIAN FODEN-VENCIL/OPB

Oregon Considers Changing The Way Mentally Ill People Are Committed

May 20, 2019

Dr. Maggie Bennington-Davis testifies before Congressional committee on the state of mental health in America

May 2, 2016

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Oregon’s Lack Of Crisis Standards Of Care Worries Health Care Officials

The state did away with its former crisis standards of care, calling them discriminatory. Some health care officials say what replaced the standards isn't enough.

Sep 14, 2021

Private equity and large corporations have a complicated and not always noticed presence in health care. A bill limiting the corporate practice of medicine failed to pass the Oregon Legislature despite broad support. | SHUTTERSTOCK

What killed the Oregon effort to curb corporate medicine?

Concerns over big business in health care propelled a rookie lawmaker’s bill through the House before opponents entangled it in delay, objections

Mar 12, 2024

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