Timothy McMenamin Recognized by Father Flanagan

"It costs so little to teach a child to Love, and so much to teach him to hate" -Father Flanagan of Boys Town USA.

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Oregon League of Women Voters Look and Compare!!

Given the changing health care landscape, what do you see as key health care opportunities and challenges for Oregon in the next few years? Timothy E McMenamin
The Affordable Care Act’s text is unambiguous about how the insurance exchanges are supposed to work. According to the law, federal subsidies are available through exchanges"established by the State.” Thirty-six states didn’t set up exchanges. In some cases, their elected leaders decided not to. Other states tried to build their own. In many cases—among them Oregon, Maryland, Vermont, and Hawaii―they failed.
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Some parents upset state won't reveal where sick children attend school

PORTLAND, Ore. -- So far the Oregon Health Authority has refused to say where the children sick with enterovirus 68 in the state attend school. Three of them are from Multnomah County. Dr. Richard Leman with OHA says they have no plans to pass that information on to parents. Leman says it's up to parents to keep a close eye on their kids and to make sure they wash their hands regularly and cover their mouths during a cough or sneeze.
www.katu.com/news/local/Oregon-Entrovirus-patients...p;c=y
#oregon #multnomah #portland #OHA #DHS #CoverOregon #KitzCare #orcot #multgop #timmcmenamin #pdxevents
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The time is Now to stop bleeding at Cover Oregon!!

Senate Republican Leader Ted Ferrioli of John Day and two other Republican senators Saturday called on Democrats to join them in holding an immediate special legislative session with the purpose of ending Cover Oregon. "Next year will be too late..." Gov Kitzhaber is on board with ending Cover Oregon, but said the time to deal with it is in regular legislative session next year. Great, in the mean time Oregonians will pay millions to keep this debacle going until next year.
www.katu.com/politics/GOP-senators-call-for-specia....html
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Tell Governor Kitzhaber to Shut It Down Cover Oregon!!

Cover Oregon is currently paying salary, benefits, legal services and renting working space for 120 employees and dozens of contractors. Without legislative intervention, the defunct Cover Oregon agency is planning to spend an additional $20 million on operation costs through the remainder of the year, or $200,000 per day in a five day work week. campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?ca=250b3ef...eaba9
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Youth Villages Oregon serves families through intensive in-home services

In 2011, Youth Villages merged with ChristieCare, an organization that has served thousands of children and families in Oregon since 1859, the year the state was founded. This tradition carries on through residential treatment for children with emotional and behavioral problems at the Christie Campus in Lake Oswego and supplemental residential programs and activities at the Clackamas River Campus in Oregon City. - See more at: www.youthvillages.org/where-we-serve/oregon.aspx#s....dpuf
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#DHS #OHA #YouthVillages #ChristieCare #orcot #LynneSaxton #pdxevents #multgop #timmcmenamin
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Cover Oregon consultant bills state about $600,000

The Oregonian reports Clyde Hamstreet has completed his job stabilizing Oregon's health care exchange. But the cost of his work and two associates has added up nearly $600,000 and he hasn't submitted his August invoice. Hamstreet was initially signed to a $100,000 contract in April but the scope of his contract grew and the dollar amount was amended as well. Gov. John Kitzhaber asked Hamstreet to take over the exchange in April when he forced out three top officials. He was hired for a four-to-six-week job that extended into five months because the reorganization turned out to be a bigger job than expected.
www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/politics/2014/...95625
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Feds cite 'fundamental concerns' with Oregon's coordinated care model

The Oregonian reports this morning that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services cited "fundamental concerns" with parts of Oregon's coordinated care organization model.
The "directive could eventually even force the state to return hundreds of millions of dollars received from the federal government," the paper's Nick Budnick wrote.
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New Cover Oregon executive director Aaron Patnode will make $215,000 a year!!

Cover Oregon's new executive director has signed a contract awarding him a base salary of $215,000 a year, more than a $30,000 raise over his predecessor. Aaron Patnode, selected by the health insurance exchange's board after a lengthy search to replace Howard "Rocky" King, starts Monday, July 14. The 36-year-old Kaiser Permanente manager will make more than twice the salary of Gov. John Kitzhaber. Patnode will also receive full state benefits as well as yearly incentive pay of $32,250 if he meets performance measures set by the Cover Oregon board.
www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2014/07/new_co...river

Oracle Cover Oregon website worked, but plug pulled for political reasons Why??

Software vendor Oracle provided information last week to the U.S. House and Energy Committee claiming the website was operational in February, but that the state of Oregon pulled the plug on it for political reasons. The On Your Side Investigators obtained a copy of the Power Point presentation, which alleges the state deliberately distorted the case for abandoning the Cover Oregon website in favor of transitioning to the federal exchange. Kitzhaber blamed Oracle for missing deadlines and for what he called fundamental flaws in the portal’s architecture and for thousands of bugs in the system. The On Your Side Investigators reported in December that the decision not to hire a Systems Integrator was the first major wrong turn for the project. The Investigators unearthed reports from independent quality-assessment contractor Maximus that reached the same conclusion. Oracle says it tried to keep the project in line even in the months after it missed its go-live date of Oct. 1, but Cover Oregon officials continued to circumvent normal procedures and attempt to expand the scope of work beyond what was necessary to make the website functional.
www.katu.com/news/investigators/Oracle-Cover-Orego....html

Lawsuit claims Regence BlueCross BlueShield no longer acting like nonprofit

Lawyers have filed a class-action lawsuit against Oregon nonprofit health insurer Regence BlueCross BlueShield, saying it is acting like a for-profit company by stockpiling excess funds that support large salaries rather than health care for policyholders. The suit lists Regence policyholder Tanya March and her two children as plaintiffs as well as Dischinger Orthodontics of Lake Oswego. Cambia Health Solutions, the parent company for Regence and its sister companies in Washington, Utah and Idaho, does not report total executive compensation that includes income from for-profit subsidiaries, making those figures difficult to ascertain. However, in 2012, Cambia CEO Mark Ganz told The Oregonian he earned $1.94 million.
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Mental health providers upset over state's funding formula

Lawmakers allocated $65.1 million to the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) in the 2013 session for investments in mental health services. Then, they came back and added an additional $20 million during the September 2013 special session through an increase in the state's cigarette tax. The OHA decided to eschew its traditional funding formula. Instead, the agency used a grant application process designed to give smaller counties and mental health providers a chance at larger awards. And it frustrated rural communities that lacked the time and resources to apply. "We are a very tiny, rural county," said Chris Siegner, who runs Harney County's private mental health provider called Symmetry Care. "We don't have grant writers who manage all the documentation that go along with it." Symmetry Care didn't apply for any of the 12 grants OHA made available. "The frustrating part is we have to provide the crisis services anyway," Siegner said.
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Our State will Pay Cover Oregon Officials' Legal Bills!!

Wait a minute. I thought Cover Oregon was a "Public Corporation" and not a state agency.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/06/stat....html

KATU Oregon hires lawyers, issues demands for potential Cover Oregon Suit

After $250 Million How Much More Do You Think Oregon Will Spend on Lawyers and How Long Will It Take? Portland law firm Markowitz Herbold Glade & Mehlhaf PC has been paid $352,000 so far to prepare for a potential lawsuit and their contract now allows them to bill the state up to $2.5 million. The state has retained two Washington, D.C., lawyers to help Oregon with an investigation by a U.S. House committee. A Portland criminal defense attorney also was hired in response to an investigation by the FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office, according to the documents, which include contracts and billing summaries obtained under Oregon's public records law. The state also turned to Portland attorney Robert Weaver, a former federal prosecutor who has defended a number of high-profile criminal defendants, including figure skater Tonya Harding. Weaver is representing the state and its current and former employees in a federal criminal investigation. The U.S. Attorney's Office has issued subpoenas to state agencies seeking, among other things, communications between 10 officials involved in developing and overseeing the Cover Oregon website.
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Cover Oregon's Aaron Patnode is 4th director in 6 months

How About Hiring A Native Oregonian and a Republican just as a Good Will Measure! DURHAM — The Cover Oregon board unanimously voted to hire a Kaiser Permanente official to become the state health exchange's permanent executive director Thursday.
Pending contract negotiations, Aaron Patnode, who is responsible for Kaiser Permanente's implementation of the Affordable Care Act in Oregon and Washington, will take over an organization under immense scrutiny, turbulence and uncertainty. Patnode has worked for Kaiser Permanente since 2009, in various roles. He also has experience in public relations and hospital administration. He has a bachelor's degree in communications from Boston College and a Master of Business Administration and Master of Healthcare Administration from the University of Minnesota.
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Governor Kitzhaber Who Is Going To Prison Over CoverOregon Fraud?

"Governor Kitzhaber Are You Going to Jail?" Confronted Over CoverOregon CoverUp

Great Journalism Dan Sandini! To Bad Our Local Stations Don't Ask The Same Questions!

Federal investigators issue subpoena to Cover Oregon, Oregon Health Authority

Oregon has spent $250 million and three years on an ambitious IT project that failed to produce a fully functional exchange. Instead, what was produced was bug-ridden and largely unfinished, documents show. Among other things, the FBI seems to be interested in whether state officials misled their federal counterparts about progress on the exchange in order to get more federal funding. The FBI has asked for all communications between the state and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the so-called "gate reviews," in which federal officials supposedly quizzed state officials about the status of the IT project.
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Oregon Might Have To Pay Back Feds For Website Problems!!

The Obama administration’s candidate to run the Affordable Care Act says she would use the full extent of the law to recover any federal funds misspent on state health insurance exchanges. The latest numbers to come out of the Cover Oregon fiasco show that Oregon spent about $250 million to set up its troubled website. About 63 percent of that went toward IT services. The question is: Will Oregon have to pay any of that back now the state will be switching over to the federal website?
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Thousands have not paid premiums for Cover Oregon health policies, placing coverage at risk

A large number of people who've signed up for private health insurers through the Cover Oregon health insurance exchange have not paid their first month's premiums, meaning they are at risk of going without coverage through November. This year, for the first time, most people who don't have health coverage risk a federal tax penalty that runs as much as 1 percent of household income. Once the first month's premium is paid and the policy is in place, under the Affordable Care Act consumers will have a much longer grace period – 90 days—to reinstate insurance after failing to pay.
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