An Oregon Perspective: Developing Real Health Care Reform
Our nation faces a number of daunting challenges: high unemployment, skyrocketing foreclosures, and a credit freeze which is crippling businesses. Each of them is contributing to another long-simmering crisis: the unavailability and unaffordability of health care. Forty-seven million Americans do not have health insurance and millions more are under-insured. Seniors
Healthcare concerns dominate Merkley town hall
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) visited Southwestern Oregon on Wednesday, May 27 as part of an effort to make yearly visits to every county in the state. Merkley spent that morning at Hope Mountain in Illinois Valley learning about biomass and forest-thinning projects recently begun in the area. He then met
Wyden, Merkley Announce Funding To Improve Access to Mental Health Treatment for Rural Veterans
Washington, D.C.- Continuing efforts to make sure all of Oregon’s veterans have access to the quality medical care they deserve, U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Jeff Merkley (D- Ore.) announced today that the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center will receive $1.9 million to improve mental health treatment for veterans
Senate, Merkley critical of nicotine-rich tobacco product that tastes like candy
WASHINGTON — Twelve years after Joe Camel’s forced retirement for luring children into a life of smoking, Congress is confronting another slickly advertised threat that some lawmakers and public health officials say is even more worrisome — tobacco that dissolves in the mouth and tastes like candy. “The future of
Merkley talks health care, budget during Medford stop
Hopes for health-care reform ran high among a crowd that gathered Tuesday afternoon for a town-hall meeting with Sen. Jeff Merkley at the RCC/SOU Higher Education Center in downtown Medford. Organizers from Health Care for America Now! passed out stickers to the roughly 100 people who came to meet Oregon’s
Merkley bill targets tobacco candy
WASHINGTON — Legislation the Senate is considering to regulate tobacco products under the Food and Drug Administration includes a measure that would mandate the study of a new product: tobacco candy. Made by the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., the lozenge-like Camel Orb is being test-marketed in Portland, Ore., Indianapolis
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