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June 25, 2013 — The Oregon House passed a bill with unanimous support Monday that supporters say could save the economy $150 million in administrative waste by crafting a single credentialing process that all insurers, hospitals and coordinated care organizations can share for thousands of healthcare providers.

The FDA just approved the Pfizer vaccine for children ages 12 to 15, setting the stage for the potential vaccination of more than 150,000 more Oregonians.

The legislation aims to rein in costs and prevent monopolies, but health care companies say it would reduce flexibility and create uncertainty.

OPINION -- The U.S. Senate Finance Committee (on which Senator Ron Wyden serves as the ranking member) held a hearing on the state of mental health care in America last Thursday, at which Oregon’s own Maggie Bennington-Davis, MD (who graduated from OHSU’s medical school and psychiatry residency program and went on to work at Salem Hospital, then was chief medical officer at Cascadia BH services before becoming CMO at HealthShare, the largest CCO in Oregon) was one of the four notable persons invited to testify before the committee.