Today the federal government approved Oregon’s federal Medicaid waiver application to continue the Oregon Health Plan—Oregon’s Medicaid program—for another five years. The Oregon Health Plan (OHP) covers over 1 million low-income Oregonians who are struggling [...]
Contributed by: Mark Nystrom, AOC Energy, Environment & Land Use Policy Manager May 27, 2016 The Senate Interim Committee on Environment and Natural Resources focused primarily on air quality during its 3 hour hearing [...]
Contributed by: Stacy Michaelson, AOC Health and Human Services Policy Manager May 27, 2016 The Health & Human Services Committees were full of agency updates during the May 2016 Legislative Days. The Oregon Health [...]
Oregon counties came out of the legislative session in relatively good shape on the health and human services fronts: a public health modernization bill with which we are happy, a public health budget that saw [...]