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Improving Health Outcomes by Linking Community-based Community Health Workers with Health Systems

Oregon’s junior U.S. senator invited a Portland woman able to receive a liver transplant because of the Affordable Care Act to sit with him at Tuesday night’s presidential speech before Congress. Democrats are fighting Republican efforts to scrap the Obama health reform law as well as a renewed effort to give seniors health insurance vouchers instead of Medicare.

Transgender Oregonians face a gauntlet of legal barriers if they wish to have their birth certificates and identification changed from the gender and name assigned to birth, including court fees and public postings. HB 2673 would implement a time- and money-saving administrative process more respectful of people’s privacy.