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New legislation would create an interim task force to delve into creating such a system.

The Oregon Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would require health insurance companies to send payments directly to the healthcare provider, and not the patient -- something currently practiced by Regence BlueCross BlueShield, Lifewise Health Plan and UnitedHealthCare, and possibly other insurance companies.

OPINION -- After a series of avoidable deaths of persons with mental illness at the hands of police officers, the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division investigated the Portland Police Bureau, and in 2011 found the Bureau made a “pattern and practice” of harming people with a mental crisis.

The U.S. has one of the highest teen birth rates among developed nations.