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		<title>Comprehensive Health Reform Passes Oregon Senate</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the text of the floor letter delivered to all members of the Oregon Legislature prior to the vote: Like you, we believe that the time is now for health reform. All Oregonians need affordable access to quality health care, with an ultimate objective of improving health. We know that there is much work [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthyoregon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6903318&amp;post=113&amp;subd=healthyoregon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HB2009 and HB2116 Pass Oregon House!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, June 8th the Oregon House passed comprehensive health reform. HB2009 and HB2116 are companion bills that will expand coverage to 80,000 Oregon children and 35,000 additional low income adults, and lay the foundation for reforms to limit the growth in health care costs.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthyoregon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6903318&amp;post=111&amp;subd=healthyoregon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HB2009 moves out of Ways and Means Subcommittee</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This afternoon HB2009, the comprehensive health reform bill before the Oregon Legislature, moved out of the Ways and Means Human Services Subcommittee with a do-pass recommendation! It will come before the full Ways and Means Committee tomorrow.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthyoregon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6903318&amp;post=106&amp;subd=healthyoregon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 16:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Position on Comprehensive Health Reform in the 2009 Session Our coalition of organizations represents over 800,000 Oregonians working together to support the health reform in the 2009 Oregon Legislative session. We have been active participants in the process this session, working closely with the House Health Care Committee on HB2009 language creating the Health Authority [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthyoregon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6903318&amp;post=102&amp;subd=healthyoregon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HB2116 needs to cover 180,000 Oregonians and maximize the federal matching funds coming to Oregon</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 17:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, one in five Oregonians is currently uninsured and nearly 60 percent of them are employed. Living without adequate health coverage is a risk no one should have to take.  Now more than ever we need to fix our broken health care system so that all Oregonians can get the care they need, when they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthyoregon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6903318&amp;post=99&amp;subd=healthyoregon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Now is the time for the 2009 Oregon Legislature to enact the Health Fund Board recommendations and lay the foundation of health care reform in Oregon</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Too many Oregonians don’t have access to quality, affordable health care.  Oregonians can’t afford to wait. We need health reform now! HB2116, which passed out of the House Health Care Committee and is now in the Revenue Committee would use money already within the health care system to restructure and renew the provider tax with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthyoregon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6903318&amp;post=78&amp;subd=healthyoregon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Expansion for Coverage of Oregon&#8217;s Children and More Low-Income Adults Moves Out of Committee</title>
		<link>http://healthyoregon.wordpress.com/2009/04/18/expansion-for-coverage-of-oregons-children-and-more-low-income-adults-moves-out-of-committee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Key Health Reform Bill Passes Out of Committee. As a coalition of organizations representing over 800,000 Oregonians, we began the session with a 100 Day Countdown to Health with the goal of passing health reform by April 22. We are pleased to see real progress as HB2116 passed out of the House Health Care Committee [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthyoregon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6903318&amp;post=73&amp;subd=healthyoregon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Action Day</title>
		<link>http://healthyoregon.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/health-care-action-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[House Bill 2009 and Senate Bills 451-457 The Time for Health Reform is Now! Now is the time for the 2009 Oregon Legislature to enact the Health Fund Board recommendations as the essential first steps for achieving quality, affordable, accessible health care for all Oregonians: provide health care for more Oregonians rein in skyrocketing health [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthyoregon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6903318&amp;post=61&amp;subd=healthyoregon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Available</title>
		<link>http://healthyoregon.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/available/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Too many Oregonians don’t have access to quality, affordable health care. We must create healthy communities by covering all people living in Oregon starting with expanding access to cover all children and more low income adults. At the same time we need to acknowledge and address health disparities faced by many including but not limited [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthyoregon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6903318&amp;post=47&amp;subd=healthyoregon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainable</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Health care reform is an issue that impacts every Oregon family and business. We must create a sustainable system for reform that contains costs, works to expand access, and provides better health outcomes for all Oregonians. As health care costs contain to grow, these rising costs are crippling small businesses and Oregon’s families. In 2008, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthyoregon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6903318&amp;post=37&amp;subd=healthyoregon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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