SALEM — A proposal to make it easier and more lucrative to teach in Oregon is being heard by the public and lawmakers after a work group spent months looking
Q&A: Minority leader Rep. Christine Drazan discusses session progress and health care bipartisanship Patrick Jones | May 6, 2021
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Oregon House minority leader Christine Drazan is serving her second term in the Legislature and became the leader of the House Republican Party after serving for nine months. Currently, she serves on the House Committee On Health Care, House Committee On Rules as Vice-Chair, Joint Committee On Ways and Means, among others.
In this Q&A, Drazan talks about how this session has gone for her caucus, how the pandemic restricts freedoms of her constituents and the bipartisanship needed to fix health care.
Oregon bill to give OHA control over mergers and acquisitions passes out of committee Patrick Jones | Apr 19, 2021
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House Bill 2362 recently passed out of the House Health Care Committee on a party line vote. The bill would require health care providers and hospitals to obtain permission from the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) before any merger, acquisition or affiliation transactions.
The bill also creates an advisory board for the OHA to help determine the usefulness and validity of the merger. No more than one-third of the board’s members may be representatives of health care providers and hospitals. This allows for the community, those who it mainly affects, to have a voice on these transactions.