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California now is one of nine states with regulations limiting health care cost increases (Oregon is another). Consumers won’t necessarily notice the changes, but supporters say they will make a difference over time.
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The lawsuit is one of several class-action proceedings that have led the courts to assume oversight of the prison system’s treatment of those who are sick or suffer from mental illnesses.
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There is a race gap in many things in America, health care among them. Health outcomes are just generally better for people with white skin. But Oregon's…
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Roughly a third of the people who work as nurses in Oregon are approaching retirement age. So in a few more years, a shortage could result... with perhaps…
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Oregon's budget is tight enough that keeping all the programs required a new revenue source. So the legislature narrowly passed a tax on health insurance…
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Will health care ever be out of the news? Perhaps someday. But today is not that day. With talk of "repeal and replace" still fresh in Washington and new…
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It's a familiar story in American health care: people getting their primary medical care from a hospital emergency room instead of a primary care…
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It's an issue now and will become a bigger issue in the future: people need care from other people when they are very old and very young. And as the…
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What does Planned Parenthood mean to you? We put that question to thousands of people in Southern Oregon and Northern California this week through a…
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California's hospital fee program and drug prices are both items up for votes on the November ballot. We start there and broaden out a discussion of…
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The Affordable Care Act--"Obamacare"--got health insurance for millions more people, but it is far from perfect. And that opinion is common even outside…
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A big city hospital and a small town version will team up to train doctors in Oregon. Oregon Health & Sciences University in Portland and Sky Lakes…
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Emily Wing Smith nearly died in a car accident when she was twelve years old. And that turned out to be a good thing; because her post-accident health…
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You can imagine why lots of doctors like to work in urban areas... there are lots of people there, and building a lucrative practice would be fairly easy.…