"A comprehensive health reform package winding its way through Oregon’s Legislature promises to reduce costs while improving quality. Advocates say the bill is too soft on insurance rate review, but there’s much to applaud."

Excerpt from The Lund Report article, "Comprehensive Health Reform Bill Nears Passage'"
Written by: Diane Lund-Muzikant
Published: May 28, 2009

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"A tax on hospitals to insure Oregon children and expand the Oregon Health Plan would cost hospitals $208 million a year, according to a study for the Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems...." Rep. Mitch Greenlick, D-Portland, Chair of the House Health Care Committee, "said the study was based on a faulty assumption of cuts in state Medicaid payments when legislators want to increase Medicaid reimbursements to help offset the tax."

Excerpt from Oregonian article, "Study: Tax to expand Oregon Health Plan would cost hospitals $208 million a year -- A legislator rips into the study's assumptions as a 'Halloween scenario'"
Written by: Bill Graves
Published: Feb. 7, 2009

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"Health care reform must not focus on only the payment and delivery side of the equation. The reality is that we have limited resources with seemingly unlimited demand, and we must moderate the demand if other reforms are to be successful. This requires, among other things, a strong emphasis on prevention and chronic-care management."

Excerpt from Oregonian guest editorial, "Common principles for health care reform"
Written by: George J. Brown, President and CEO of Legacy Health System
Published: Feb. 18, 2009

Read the complete editorial here.