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DentaQuest anticipates having a majority stake in the Oregon-based insurer.

Oregon Continues to Have One of Country’s Highest Rates of Childhood Dental Disease

The Legislature has approved additional money to stop-gap escalating costs for disability services at the Department of Human Services and restored funding for a loan repayment program for doctors and other medical professionals willing to serve Medicaid patients. The Department of Environmental Quality also got $2.5 million to expand air quality monitoring as a result of the Portland heavy metal scare.

Given a new supermajority by voters, Senate Democrats continue to check off legislation that passed the more liberal House in 2013 but died in the Senate. SB 411 brings Oregon more in line with other states and allows injured people to use money from both parties’ auto insurance policies in case of an accident, but it will likely raise premiums slightly.