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Experiment in Oregon Gives Medicaid Very Local Roots

on Fri, 2013-04-12 10:08   michelle

Gov. John Kitzhaber, a former emergency room doctor, said, “We’re building something that’s never been built before.”

Some say America has been homogenized, a chain-store nation bereft of regional distinction in dialect or dinner. But now this state, at the pioneer’s end of the road, is testing the idea that local community difference is alive and well, and that grass-roots leadership holds the key to fixing health care in America.

Story Date: 
April 12, 2013
News Author: 
Kirk Johnson
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Source URL: https://www.pcpcc.org/2013/04/12/experiment-oregon-gives-medicaid-very-local-roots

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[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/13/us/oregon-experiments-with-localized-medicaid.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&hpw