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I want to thank our US Senators and our House members who showed the courage to take positive action NOW! Health and health care is a complicated set of systems, yet there is so much good accomplished in these efforts. Health (and economic) security for individuals and for a society that is burdened with unsustainable increases in costs while mediocre outcomes. For seniors, better prevention and discharge planning/care coordination while extending Medicare solvency. For the boomers, security against discrimination (age, gender, pre-existing conditions). For health providers, better HIT and research and support!

So how do WE...patient/consumers, health providers and families help implement and support all this work to be done?

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You are absolutely right....OPB and Oregonian both misstate this. We need to meet needs of BOTH!

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