Campaign for a Healthy Oregon
Read our new report on how to cut healthcare costs!
Cutting Healthcare Costs
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OSPIRG is working to stop the skyrocketing cost of health case while improving quality.
For
the last year, OSPIRG Advocate Laura Etherton (that’s her speaking at a
news conference) has been working with the Oregon Health Fund Board to
hammer out a recommendation to the Legislature.
At the same
time, the OSPIRG chapters collected photo petitions from hundreds of
students to the Board, testified at hearings (that’s our SOU Chair with Representative Bates) and generated media coverage of the issue.
Our work is paying off. The Board’s draft recommendations include most of our priority cost-cutting measures.
But
the recommendations are not perfect, which prompted Laura to write a
new report, More for Your Money, that outlines all of the best cost
cutting strategies we should be using, which was covered by OPB yet
again. We are now working to make the final plan as strong as possible.
For the remainder of the fall, OSPIRG will focus on educating the campus about ways we can cut healthcare costs while improving quality, as well as meeting with state policymakers to persuade them of this approach.
Oregon is coming up with a big health care reform plan now. We need your help to make this work.
