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Article: We're No. 34!(Editorials)(Oregon's health care ranks in the bottom tier)(Editorial)
- Article from:
- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- June 15, 2007
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Byline: The Register-Guard
If legislators needed additional motivation to improve Oregon's beleaguered health care system before they adjourn, they got some on Wednesday from the Commonwealth Fund, a nonpartisan health care research group based in New York.
The news wasn't good. In a detailed analysis of health system performance in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., the nonprofit Commonwealth Fund ranked Oregon 34th overall. The report compiled data from various government agencies to compare state health care across five broad categories: access, quality, avoidable hospital use and costs, equity, and healthy lives.
The high proportion of Oregon children and ...