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"Oregon has not seen an increase in the number of suicides for the first nine months of 2020 when compared to the same time period in 2019,” an Oregon Health Authority communications official said.

The announcement comes a day after Kaiser Permanente said that it would require all employees to be fully inoculated.

Rep. Rob Nosse, D-Portland, is crusading this session against the high cost of medicine, first with a bill to rein in pharmaceutical costs and now with legislation that goes after another big cost-driver: hospitals, which charge health insurers considerably more in Oregon than in other states.

Oregon’s hospitals are writing down far less unpaid revenue as “charity care,” as patients enroll in Medicaid-funded health plans and shift away from more traditional private insurance, according to a confidential report obtained by The Lund Report.

The Oregon Health Authority tracked 23 vaping-related lung injuries across the state by mid-March.