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OHSU Elnahal, U.S. Sens. Wyden, Merkley and U.S. Rep. Maxine Dexter
Right to left: U.S. Rep. Maxine Dexter talks with Portland-area health care providers about Medicaid changes coming to Oregon as U.S. Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, and OHSU President Shereef Elnahal look on. | JOANNE ZUHL/THE LUND REPORT

Federal law looms for Oregonians’ health coverage

Concerns are rising across Oregon as the potential impacts of the Republican-driven law passed in July sink in. Medicaid cuts and other changes expected to start in 2027 could affect access to care for hundreds of thousands of Oregonians.
Aug 26, 2025
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Multnomah County worked to vaccinate people of color and people experiencing homelessness. | MOTOYA NAKAMURA/MULTNOMAH COUNTY

Oregon's health care program for low-income people is in ‘crisis,’ leaders say

Much publicized federal cuts haven't even kicked in yet. But the state's health care system for 1.4 million low-income people is already bleeding red ink, and leaders of the care organizations in the Oregon Health Plan say they can't afford to keep delivering care at a huge loss.
Aug 21, 2025
Val Hoyle Jeff Merkley Ron Wyden
From left: Rep. Val Hoyle, Sen. Jeff Merkley and Sen. Ron Wyden speak with health care providers during a Wednesday roundtable in Eugene. | ZAC ZIEGLER/KLCC

Merkley, Wyden, Hoyle visit Eugene to talk Medicaid cuts

Oregon’s U.S. Senators aimed their ire at the fact that cuts and increased rules about qualifying for Medicaid will coincide with now-permanent changes to tax rates
Aug 21, 2025
Erin McCanlies
Erin McCanlies spent almost two decades at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health studying how parents’ exposure to chemicals affects the chance that they will have a child with autism. This spring, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eliminated her entire division. | NATE SMALLWOOD/PROPUBLICA

RFK Jr. vowed to find the environmental causes of autism. Then he shut down research trying to do just that.

As Kennedy promotes his new initiative, ProPublica has found that he has also taken aim at the traditional scientific approach to autism stripping funding from more than 50 autism-related studies
Aug 21, 2025

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