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What's next for Oregon Health Plan?

Uncertainty about the fate of the Affordable Care Act spells confusion for Oregon Health Plan patients and providers and leaves the state facing tough budget decisions The Oregon Health Plan is reputed to be one of the most innovative and ambitious Medica ...

2 Feb 2017 - Amanda Waldroupe
The job of protecting Oregonians’ health isn't over

COMMENTARY | Extending insurance coverage to more people would be a big step forward Take all the people who live in Eugene and Salem, Oregon’s second- and third-largest cities. Add to that the population of Corvallis, the state’s tenth-largest city. Wh ...

21 Apr 2016 - Janet Bauer
Lifting Barriers: Basic Rights Oregon

As co-directors transform Basic Rights Oregon, they remain committed to putting LGBTQ issues ‘front and center’ Advocacy group Basic Rights Oregon sees this as a “transformational moment” in the fight for equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender a ...

7 May 2015 - Jared Paben
City Club to study Medicaid expansion, homeless impact

Health care reform at the federal level and expansion of the Oregon Health Plan (OHP) provide an opportunity to increase access to health care and improve health outcomes for thousands of Oregonians, especially those experiencing homelessness. More than h ...

19 Mar 2014 - Kathy Black
Poverty issues to mostly take a back seat in Salem

When legislators convene in Salem for the Legislature’s month-long session, scheduled to begin Feb. 3, they are likely to focus on economic development, job growth, continuing to fund and reform education, and pass legislation that didn’t quite make it du ...

13 Jan 2014 - Amanda Waldroupe
A health care expansion worth smiling about

Oregon’s new health networks are partnering with dental programs to bring better oral care to low-income families Despite the controversy and questions surrounding the new health care law, one concrete benefit is giving many of Oregon’s most vulnerable pe ...

4 Nov 2013 - Jasmine Rockow
Add it up: Health Share looks at ways to merge health care and affordable housing

There’s a lot of money — and lives — resting on Oregon’s grand experiment in restructuring health care through Medicaid. Portland metropolitan area’s largest coordinated care organization, Health Share of Oregon, like others across the state, have a manda ...

30 Jul 2013 - Amanda Waldroupe
Oregon’s great health care experiment: State puts $240 million on the line with coordinated care

Oregon’s great health care experiment: State puts $240 million on the line with coordinated care By Amanda Waldroupe, Staff Writer Starting in September, the Portland metropolitan area’s largest private and public health care providers will forge a new wa ...

15 Aug 2012 - Street Roots
Just what the legislature ordered: Oregon races the clock to restructure its low-income health care system

Just what the legislature ordered: Oregon races the clock to restructure its low-income health care system By Amanda Waldroupe, Staff Writer Autumn Bolds begins the day’s huddle by telling Dr. Rachel Solotaroff, the medical director of Central City Concer ...

27 Oct 2011 - Street Roots