Background

The Senate Commission on Health Care Access & Affordability, co-chaired during the 2006 interim by Senators Alan Bates and Ben Westlund, involved a broad-based coalition of health care providers, insurance providers, hospitals, advocates and large and small business leaders to look at ways to contain costs, improve quality, and increase coverage. 

The Healthy Oregon Act builds on the foundation laid over the last 18 months of public involvement around several reform efforts and provides a blueprint for improving Oregon's health care system over the next few years that lowers costs, improves quality and assures every Oregonian affordable health insurance.

Oregon has led the nation before and we can do it again by focusing on the achievable.  We can't solve this problem simply by throwing more money at our current inefficient health system…and we can’t solve it overnight.

There isn't one quick fix to this complicated crisis; we must weave a cloth of a thousand threads, and it takes time to do that right.  The Healthy Oregon Act guides this process.  Passing The Healthy Oregon Act, Senate Bill 329, is not the end of the conversation around reform, it is the important beginning.
 

Learn more about the Healthy Oregon Act!

Thank you to everyone who has participated in the process!