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Salem Health-Regence split turns spotlight on insurance company wealth

Power struggles, pressure tactics and public brinksmanship in recent disputes between health insurers and providers — such as hospitals — are all about money. Insurers have it, and providers want more of it.

Mar 4
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Dr. Win Kyin worked in primary care in Myanmar before fleeing the country, but she ran into roadblocks when she tried to get licensed to practice medicine in the U.S. Kyin pictured here on March 3 at the IRCO Pacific Islander and Asian Family Center. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

States facing doctor shortages ease licensing rules for foreign-trained physicians

Amid doctor shortages, several states have stopped requiring foreign-trained providers to repeat residencies before they’re fully licensed. Critics say patients could be harmed because of the loosened training requirements.

Mar 4

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Internal memos: senior USAID leaders warned Trump appointees of hundreds of thousands of deaths from closing agency

One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos estimated. The programs were cut anyway.

Mar 4

Members of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation participate in a drumming demonstration at a conference in 2017. | COURTESY/OREGON DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

For Indian Country, federal cuts decimate core tribal programs

Tribal services aren’t national altruism. They’re written into centuries-old treaties.

Mar 4

Drs. Sharon Quick and Brick Lantz (upper panels), as well as psychologist Angela Plowhead (lower left), testify against a bill that would make far-reaching changes to the Oregon Death with Dignity law during a Oregon Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on March 3, 2025. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Senators hear passionate arguments over how terminally ill patients end their lives in Oregon

Critics, including the Oregon Medical Association, say a proposal to update state’s Death with Dignity law would rush the process with harmful results

Mar 4
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The Oregon House of Representatives convenes on inauguration day at the Capitol in Salem, Ore., Jan. 9, 2023. On Feb. 27, 2025, the House passes a bill to raise billions of federal dollars for Oregon's Medicaid program by a margin of 40-15, with six Republicans voting to approve. | KRISTYNA WENTZ-GRAFF/OPB

6 Republicans join Democrats, pass Medicaid funding bill in the Oregon House

Without legislative action both taxes will sunset in the next two years, leaving a $1.1 billion hole in the state’s budget

Mar 1

A family walks outside a St. John’s Community Health clinic in South Los Angeles. | JACKIE FORTIÉR/KFF HEALTH NEWS

Health clinic workers brush up on constitutional protections as immigration raids loom

Since Donald Trump’s return to the White House, fear of mass deportations carried out by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has gripped immigrant communities.

Feb 27

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Union wants to keep Coos Bay hospital in public hands

With a Tennessee-based firm poised to take over operation of Bay Area Hospital, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555 says a few changes and a temporary loan are what's needed to get the facility breaking even again

Feb 27
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U.S. Congressman Cliff Bentz speaking with attendees at the American Conservation Coalition's 2023 Summit at the Salt Lake City Marriott City Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. | COURTESY/GAGE SKIDMORE VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Oregon Rep. Cliff Bentz defends cutting federal spending, discusses Medicaid cuts

The GOP congressman said that health care will be focus of potential cuts and suggested their will be a work requirement to be eligible for Medicaid

Feb 27

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Federal law protects emergency abortions. Will Trump keep that policy?

The Biden administration clarified that EMTALA requires hospitals to perform abortions when they are the necessary treatment to stabilize a patient, but the policy’s future is uncertain.

Feb 27

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