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The state could expand the coordinated care transformation from the Medicaid program to legal immigrants and the poorest group of people now receiving subsidized private insurance, but advocates first want state officials to flesh out a better idea for how the program will work. The lobbyist for the insurance agents opposes the bill, noting the Trillium CCO in Lane County struggles to handle its current caseload.

Lawmakers who worked to plug the budget hole took a nip-and-tuck approach rather than slash and burn. Still, advocates are worried about behavioral health care funding.

August 24, 2012 -- Comedian George Carlin once joked that everybody complains about their local tap water, and nobody brags about it. Not so in Portland. “Portlanders pride themselves on having some of the best drinking water in the world,” said Kim Kaminski, executive director of Oregonians for Safe Drinking Water, a Portland-based nonprofit that opposes adding fluoride to municipal water supplies throughout the state.