Amelia Templeton
Reporter at Oregon Public Broadcasting
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2 weeks ago |
opb.org | Amelia Templeton
The Oregon Health Authority is touting its success at keeping people enrolled in Medicaid, the free government health insurance program, after program extensions granted during the pandemic ceased. Over the past two years Oregon and states across the country went through the “Medicaid unwinding,” the process of figuring out who was eligible to remain on the program after government protections enacted to keep people insured during the COVID-19 pandemic ended. Between April 1, 2023, and Feb.
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2 weeks ago |
opb.org | Amelia Templeton
A Washington D.C.-based nonprofit is asking Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to immediately defund alcohol and cannabis experiments at the Oregon National Primate Research Center, a facility run by OHSU and funded by the National Institutes of Health. The group, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, advocates for alternatives to the use of animals in research and veganism.
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3 weeks ago |
opb.org | Amelia Templeton
FILE - The Oregon Department of Human Services building, which houses the Oregon Health Authority offices, in Salem, Ore., on March 18, 2017. The Trump administration cut $117 million in Oregon health grants, impacting public health, equity programs, crisis lines and respiratory illness investigations. The Oregon Health Authority said Thursday the Trump administration has canceled roughly $117 million in COVID-era grants.
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1 month ago |
opb.org | Amelia Templeton
The Oregon Senate has passed a bill that will raise billions in federal dollars for the state’s Medicaid program, and allocate a substantial portion back to hospitals. It now goes to the governor for her signature. The bill, HB 2010, extends two taxes through 2032: A 2% assessment on health insurance plans and managed care organizations and a 6% assessment on hospitals’ net revenue. Both were set to expire over the next two years. The bill passed easily with bipartisan support.
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1 month ago |
opb.org | Amelia Templeton
Two national nonprofits that oppose using animals in medical research are trying a new strategy to pressure OHSU to close the Oregon National Primate Research Center, a Beaverton facility that keeps about 5,000 monkeys used in basic science research. The groups, People of the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, are lobbying the Oregon Health Authority to make closing the research facility a condition of OHSU’s purchase of Legacy Health.
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This @NigelJaquiss piece on whistleblowers who exposed Neil Goldschmidt gets at an uncomfortable truth. Adults tend to protect other adults. In theory everyone is against child abuse, but in practice, standing up for children can be a lonely experience. https://t.co/3pNfvA55qs
Only Alaska has fewer retail pharmacies per capital than Oregon. Shout to to AP for the smart analysis and @antonio__sierra who has covered this issue in Eastern Oregon for the past year. https://t.co/7ewFECNKle
Only Alaska has fewer retail pharmacies per capital than Oregon. Shout to to AP for the smart analysis and @antonio__sierra, who's been covering this on the ground in Eastern Oregon for the past year. ://www.opb.org/article/2024/06/05/oregon-pharmacy-closures-limited-access/