Monday, October 21, 2002

Oregon to vote on single-payer health care system
American Medical News story on the Oregon ballot item that would "cobble together funding streams -- including personal and employer taxes, federal health programs and the state workers' compensation system -- to create a single-payer system that would provide health care to every person in the state."  
  

Commissioners study restructuring of human services (Oregon)
Long feature story in the Curry Pilot on the possible reorganization of the Curry County Human Services Department that includes an overview of different privatization models across Oregon that are being considered.