by John Kitzhaber | Mar 5, 2007 | Learn, We Can Do Better - News
At 12:30 PM Next Wednesday, March 14, 2007, I’ll be on the Capitol steps in Salem for a rally and press conference. This event launches the campaign for Senate Bill 27, The Oregon Better Health Act. I hope you will join me. The Archimedes Movement reached a major...
by John Kitzhaber | Nov 30, 2006 | Learn, We Can Do Better - News
In a recent op-ed piece in the Oregonian, Steve Gregg challenged the various health reform proposals – including the Archimedes Movement – to focus on cost containment, and implied that all of the efforts underway are simply trying to find more money to finance the...
by John Kitzhaber | Sep 12, 2006 | Learn, We Can Do Better - News
I want to bring you up to speed on where we are with the Archimedes Movement, to provide you with some background information to help focus the next phase of discussion, and to outline what we’re asking you to do during the rest of September. Toward that end, I refer...
by John Kitzhaber | Sep 6, 2006 | Learn, We Can Do Better - News
Last October I lost my mother at the age of 88. Like most elderly people, both she and my father wanted to die at home–not in an acute care hospital bed. Indeed, throughout my political career senior advocates have supported legislation to create “durable powers...
by John Kitzhaber | Aug 7, 2006 | Learn, We Can Do Better - News
I am writing to ask for your thoughts on some specific issues. We have had a robust conversation about “principles” but at some point we have to try to incorporate them into a legislative concept. In other words, we need to think about what these principles mean in...
by John Kitzhaber | Jun 30, 2006 | Learn, We Can Do Better - News
Over the past two weeks we have taken the Archimedes Movement to La Grande, Pendleton, Roseburg, Grants Pass, Medford and Ashland. The meetings we held in these communities were well attended and enthusiastic and I want to offer my personal thanks to everyone who...
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