by Rick Ray | May 26, 2011 | Blog, Videos
The transformation process in Oregon will build coordinated care structure for our Medicaid population. What about folks who aren’t on Medicaid (the Oregon Health Plan)? Chris Bouneff of NAMI asks this question of Bruce Goldberg, MD, Director of the Oregon...
by Rick Ray | May 26, 2011 | Blog, Videos
How will the Oregon Health Insurance Exchange as proposed in Oregon Senate Bill 99A, improve the health outcomes for certain communities within Oregon? Liz Baxter of We Can Do Better and Chris Bouneff of NAMI ask this question of Bruce Goldberg, MD, Director of the...
by Rick Ray | Apr 13, 2011 | Learn
Gary Taubes is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation independent investigator in health policy and the author of “Why We Get Fat.” He has been studying diet and health for a very long time. In this lengthy-but-very-readable article in the New York Times, he examines the...
by Rick Ray | Apr 13, 2011 | Learn
Food writer Mark Bittman gets it. If we want to save our economy, we need to reduce preventable illness. It’s that simple, and that hard. He writes: In the scheme of things, saving the 38 billion bucks that Congress seems poised to agree upon is not a big deal....
by Rick Ray | Apr 7, 2011 | Learn
We Can Do Better endorses the “Triple Aim,” which is to: improve the health of a defined population; reduce or contain per capita costs; and to improve the experience of users of the system. Legacy has taken some key steps that help on all three counts....
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