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Public Meeting and Agenda

Agenda

All meetings take place at:
Portland City Hall, 1221 SW 4th Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97204

September 21, 2005
Citizens’ Health Care Working Group Committee Meetings
2:00-3:30 Rose Room and Pettygrove Room

Citizens’ Health Care Working Group Meeting
3:30-5:30 Rose Room

Agenda Item:

  • The Health Report to the American People and The “Report in Brief”

 

September 22
Citizens’ Health Care Working Group Meeting
8:30-11:30 Rose Room

Agenda Items:

  • October 6 Event
  • Website
  • Community Meetings
  • Questions for the American People

Citizens’ Health Care Working Group Committee Meetings
1:00-4:00 Rose Room and Lovejoy Room

 

September 23, 2005
Citizens’ Health Care Working Group Meeting
The Oregon Experience
9:00-3:00 City Council Chambers

9:00 Senator Ron Wyden:

  • Introductory Remarks

9:20 Governor John Kitzhaber, MD:

  • Reflections on the Oregon Health Plan: Lessons Learned; Future Applications

10:10 Michael Garland:

  • Public Meetings: Organizational Basics; Lessons Learned; Reflections from a Public Official

10:40 Allison Little, MD; Ellen Lowe:

  • The Health Services Commission: Prioritizing Benefits

11:00 Marian McDonagh (PharmD); Diane Lovell:

  • The Health Resources Commission: Using Evidence to Advise Policymakers

11:20 John Santa, MD; Bruce Goldberg, MD:

  • Summary-Discussion

12:00 Lunch

1:00 Mark Ganz, CEO Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield

1:40 Jean Thorne, former Medicaid Administrator, currently Director
Oregon Public Employees Benefit Board

  • Public Sector/Private Sector Perspectives