Health Care

Oregon Attorney General joins lawsuit to maintain funding for Planned Parenthood

Kaiser is the latest health system to announce it is ending some services for transgender children and young adults, as the Trump administration increases legal and regulatory pressure on providers.

“We’re all bracing for the impact of Medicaid cuts — we don’t know exactly how they will impact Oregon, but we do know it’s going to be bad for people with disabilities,” Jake Cornett, executive director and CEO at Disability Rights Oregon, wrote in an email.

The Virginia Garcia clinic offers vital care to low-income residents, but President Donald Trump’s budget bill, with cuts to Medicaid and food stamps, could derail its progress.

Small hospitals in Washington state are facing a difficult economic future. Their finances will likely become worse because of the federal reconciliation bill passed by Congress last week.

An analysis of an earlier version of the bill found that Oregon would be disproportionately hit by Medicaid cuts, with more people likely to lose coverage and end up uninsured.

Oregon Rep. Cliff Bentz voted for the version of the reconciliation bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in May, but the version of the bill now awaiting a vote includes new cuts to Medicaid that were not in the House version of the bill.

Lawmakers couldn’t find a compromise on a bill to regulate pharmacy benefit managers.

The Trump administration's "one big, beautiful bill" is in the state Senate.

Daniel Park, 32, was arrested on Tuesday after he was extradited from Poland, where he fled to four days after the attack.