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An employee of the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services helps a consumer pick a health care plan on the federal online health insurance marketplace. | DEPARTMENT OF CONSUMER AND BUSINESS SERVICES

Comment period extended as concerns grow over new health plan's effects

Kaiser Permanente is urging the state to pause the Basic Health Program, which would extend Oregon Health Plan-style benefits to more than 90,000 people, to address premium hikes that would hit tens of thousands of other Oregonians

Jun 13, 2023
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Economists ask if Oregon’s hospital price cap, birth control expansion worked as planned

Research presented at a national conference puts a microscope to two Oregon laws, offering lessons to other states

Jun 13, 2023
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Biden admin implores states to slow Medicaid cuts

More than a million Americans have lost coverage so far, following the end of pandemic protections

Jun 13, 2023

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Opinion: It’s time for Oregon to regulate pharmaceutical middlemen, specialty drugs

Employers shouldn’t have to go bankrupt covering crucial, life-saving medications due to deceptive PBM practices

Jun 13, 2023
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Oregon governor tables liquor fee increase

The increase was intended to curb drinking and would have funded addiction treatment

Jun 13, 2023

From left, Robert Coberly, Tulalip, tribal crisis counselor; Heaven Arbuckle, tribal crisis counselor lead; and Arbuckle's husband, Brandon Hachett, holding their son Roman. The group had an information table for the Native and Strong Lifeline at a recent Missing and Murdered Indigenous People event in Tulalip, Washington. | COURTESY NATIVE AND STRONG LIFELINE

Lifeline provides mental health support to Native people in Washington state

Volunteers of America Western Washington launched the Native and Strong Lifeline in November 2022 to address the growing mental health crisis

Jun 13, 2023

St. Charles Health System in Bend. | COURTESY OF ST. CHARLES HEALTH SYSTEM

St. Charles Medical Center dodges nurses strike with deal over pay, rest breaks

The deal comes after nearly two days of negotiations and as the nurses union threatens strikes at other hospitals

Jun 8, 2023
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From a wide-angle view, most of a single-occupancy unit at the Joyce can be seen. | COPYRIGHT PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP/ANNA DEL SAVIO/USED WITH PERMISSION

The Joyce reopens for permanent supportive housing

Cascadia Health, the Native American Rehabilitation Association and the Cascade AIDS Project will provide case management at the building, purchased by the city of Portland in 2016 for $4.2 million

Jun 8, 2023
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