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Cancer From The Kitchen?

by Rick Ray | Dec 6, 2009 | Learn

Today in the New York Times, columnist Nicholas D. Kristof discusses rising cancer rates: The battle over health care focuses on access to insurance, or tempests like the one that erupted over new mammogram guidelines. But what about broader public health challenges?...

Reform or Else

by Rick Ray | Dec 4, 2009 | Learn

In his New York Tiimes column today, Paul Krugman points out the imperative in health reform: Health care reform hangs in the balance. Its fate rests with a handful of “centrist” senators — senators who claim to be mainly worried about whether the proposed legislation...

My Near Death Panel Experience

by Rick Ray | Nov 14, 2009 | Learn

Oregon congressman Earl Blumenauer wrote this op-ed for the New York Times. It was published on November 14, 2009: I DIDN’T mean to kill Grandma. I didn’t even mean to create death panels. But now that I and my fellow lawmakers in the House have passed a health care...

Gov. John Kitzhaber’s Address at the 2009 Archimedes Movement Conference

by Rick Ray | Oct 21, 2009 | Videos

John Kitzhaber was the keynote speaker at our conference in the fall of 2009. Watch live streaming video from statesman at...

Bruce Goldberg’s Speech at the 2009 Archimedes Movement Conference

by Rick Ray | Oct 21, 2009 | Videos

Bruce Goldberg, MD, is director of Oregon’s Department of Human Services and the Oregon Health Authority, charged with implementation of Oregon’s health reform efforts. He address our conference in the fall of 2009 Watch live streaming video from statesman...