Tag: Oregon

Oregon, Kentucky dust off an Obama-era policy to expand health insurance

May 8, 2022 Sharika Soukup

The moves demonstrate a wide understanding that the Biden administration likely won’t be able to deliver on its promise to expand health care. And they come amid growing concern that the looming end of the Covid-19 public health emergency could result in millions of people being kicked off Medicaid and fear that Obamacare subsidies that…

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Oregon outpacing national increases in health care costs, study shows

May 2, 2022 Sharika Soukup

Oregon health care costs are growing faster than the national average — and are outpacing average wage increases in the state. That’s according to the first annual report from the Oregon Health Authority’s Sustainable Health Care Cost Growth Target Program. The reports are aimed at analyzing the costs of health care in Oregon, and finding…

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