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Pablo Unzueta/CalMattersHospitals argue that spending caps imposed by an affordability office will result in layoffs, cuts in health care services and reduced access to care for Californians. -
Erik Neumann/JPRA lawsuit alleges Jackson County and Wellpath, a company that provides health care services at the jail, violated the rights of an inmate who died in custody.
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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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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.…
