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Health Care for ALL — Oregon
Website: http://www.healthcareforalloregon.org/
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Mike Huntington, MD
(541) 745-5635
mchuntington@comcast.net
Dr. Huntington went to OSU then OHSU for medical school and later residency in radiation oncology. Between medical school and residency he interned at Madigan Hospital in Tacoma, Washington, and was an Army flight surgeon for two years.
Since his retirement a year and a half ago he has joined with several other physicians and other activists in Corvallis to form a group whose mission is to learn and teach about the urgent need for healthcare reform.
Paul Gorman, MD
(503) 292-4669
gormanp@comcast.net
Dr. Paul Gorman, is Associate Professor in the department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology (DMICE) at Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU). He is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, with Added Qualification in Geriatrics and is on the teaching faculty in at OHSU as well as at Providence Portland Medical Center. Currently, Dr. Gorman is co-investigator of an AHRQ funded systematic review of barriers to the use of health it by vulnerable populations, and as Principal Investigator of AHRQ funded research to improve medication safety, “RxSafe: Shared Medication Management and Clinical Decision Support for Rural Clinicians.”
Peter Mahr, MD
(503) 988.5155
peter.n.mahr@gmail.com
Peter Mahr, is a family physician who currently works at East County Health Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center in Gresham, OR. His clinic is one of five primary care clinics run by Multnomah County in the Portland area serving the under served. He is dedicated to the care of the under served and a strong proponent of a national, single-payer health plan. He is also a Clinical Assistant Professor at Oregon Health Sciences and University in the Department of Family Medicine. He graduated from Dartmouth Medical School in 1998 and finished his residency at Oregon Health Sciences and University in 2001. He has been working at East County Health Center since 2002.
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Oregon State News
By Peter Mahr | The Oregonian
Obama's health care proposal does not include any of the basic principles for true reform. Our inefficient, expensive patchwork system of health insurance would be maintained. For-profit financing would continue in the private insurance market while individuals and employers would be forced to buy it. Finally, there is no guarantee of universal coverage. Millions would be left without insurance and millions more would face financial hardship in payment of their premiums, deductibles and out-of-pocket payments.
By Paul Hochfeld | CommonDreams.org
What do we say to our more conservative friends, who genuinely think that the Single Payer solution to our health care crisis would be a disaster? Try what follows. In the end, you may simply agree to disagree. That's O.K., but what follows may give them pause to think.
Paul Hochfeld, M.D. | Letter to the Editor | Gazette Times (Corvallis, Ore.)
Sixty percent of all our health care costs are directly or indirectly taxpayer money. Because premiums paid by employers are tax-deductible, insurance companies receive a taxpayer subsidy to cover employees. Actuarially, working people are among our healthiest. Others, who want to purchase health insurance outside the workplace must, first, demonstrate health, then pay exorbitant rates. Seniors, who are at the greatest risk for high health care costs, are covered by the taxpayer through Medicare.
By PETER MAHR | Hillsboro (Ore.) Argus
As a family physician I must write to convey my frustration and indignation with the Senate health care bill.
DR. PETER MAHR | Letters to the editor | The Oregonian
The current federal health reform legislation's answer is to insure most Americans by mandating citizens buy private insurance. Unfortunately the private insurance industry and its related bureaucracy and administration waste $400 billion a year and leave many millions more underinsured and laden with medical bills.