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Rural Oregon would suffer the most harm

A recent land deal for St. Charles Medical Center and a group of Bend physicians may have been sweeter than first reported. Not only did their investment group, Cascade Property Holdings, sell the land for the new Oregon State University campus at a $3 million profit -- they sold the 10-acre parcel for 22 percent more than the appraised value.

Rep. Greg Walden raised even more than the state’s two senators in the first six months of 2017, including more than $500,000 from the healthcare industry even as he helped push a Trumpcare bill that most of the industry hated.

Those dollars went toward building a new hospital for Kaiser Permanente, along with building information technology systems at other hospitals.