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Now Advocating,or Healthy People
continued
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budget cuts have recently slashed the
number of OHP recipients, but SB27
helped Oregon become a progressive
health care state.
Now
K itzh ab er hopes the
Archimedes Movement will create more
of that type of tension, between federal
programs and alternative systems. That
pressure would conceivably force us to
examine our assumptions, expose weak
laws and contradictions, paving the
way for sweeping reforms.
But government and bureaucracy
aren’t the only obstacles. Kitzhaber
understands human nature keeps us
clinging to the familiar, no matter how
bad things get. Because individuals
with good workplace coverage and
senior citizens with Medicare may not
be willing to tinker with what they’ve
got, the Archimedes Council want to
shift the focus from “me” to “us”.
Since launching the movement ear
lier this year, Kitzhaber has traveled
throughout the state, hosting regional
public forums complete with presenta
tions, question and answer sessions
and small group discussions. This is
where the details are fleshed out. From
brainstorming in Beaverton toconcrete
ideas in Corvallis, a foundation is
formed. By September, Kitzhaber ex-
pects to be far enough along to take
these ideas and craft them into a legis
lative proposal, filed is initiative for
2008.
If passed, the state will formally re
quest waivers for the existing law, al
lowing Oregon to implement a new pro
gram.
The Archimedes Movement isn’t
the only champion for change - other
groups, including the Healthy Oregon
Plan and HOPE for Oregon Families,
could compliment, not compete with,
statewide efforts. In late June Kitzhaber
an n o u n ced his su p p o rt for the
grassroots ballot measure to make health
care a constitutional right in Oregon.
The sheer number o f Oregon ini
tiatives illustrates the need to re
place our frayed system. Kitzhaber is
confident that a synergistic approach
will surpass past attempts, notably
C linton’s 1993 failed health care re
form package. The plan w ould've
required em ployers to provide health
insurance coverage to all their em
ployees through health maintenance
organizations (HMOs).
"The difference between the Clinton
effort and this is that they had a small
group of people creating an incredibly
complicated plan," Kitzhaber said. "We
can’t solve the problem without engag
ing Oregonians as meaningful partici
pants."
Health and health
care are not
synonymous. What
we really want are
healthy people.
- former Gov. John Kitzhaber
History of
Health Care
continued
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attempts an overhaul o f Medicare
through a health care reform plan but
the complicated plan is unsuccessful.
2003 President George W. Bush
signs into law a Medicare Prescription
Drug Plan, becoming Medicare Part D,
but the plan only becomes available in
2006 through insurance companies and
HMOs. Enrollment is voluntary, is
costly to enroll at a later time and
confusion ensues.
2006 - Kitzhaber launches the
Archimedes Movement, and other O r
egon initiatives push for health care
reform.
introducing
Milan B. Williams, who penned tracks for the funk/soul group,
succumbed to a battle with cancer.
unlimited calling
The Commodores
Keyboardist Dies at 58
Milan B. Williams, an original
member o f the Commodores,
died Tuesday, July 11 at 58,
after a long battle with cancer.
Williams hailed from Mississippi,
and began playing the piano af
ter watching his older brother
Earl, who was a m ulti-instru
mentalist. Prior to joining The
Commodores, Milan played in a
rivaling band called The Jays.
When The Jaysdisbanded, Milan
joined the Commodores.
In 1969 W illiams traveled
with the group to New York,
where they recorded a single
called Keep on D ancing on
Atlantic Records.
Some o f the tracks M ilan
wrote are The C om m odores’
first hit record M achine Gun,
The Bump, Rapid Fire, I'm
R eady, B e tte r N e v e r Than
Forever, M ary Mary, Quick
Draw, Patch It Up, X-Rated
M o vie, W o n d e rla n d , O ld-
Fashion Love, and Only You
fa track Milan also produced,
taken from The Com m odores
first Richie-less LP 13 in 1983).
The group, whose best known
m em ber was sin g er L ionel
Richie, had a series o f hits dur
ing the 1970s and 1980s, includ
ing B rick H ouse, E asy and
Three Times a Lady. W illiams
wrote the band’s first hit, A/a-
chine Gun.
Milan W illiams left theC om -
m odoresin 1989, allegedly after
refusing to perform with them in
South Africa.
W illiam s died Sunday at the
U n iv e rs ity o f T e x a s M .D .
A nderson C ancer C enter in
Houston, said JoAnn Geffen, a
spokeswom an for the band.
“He was once, twice, three
times a brother and we love
him. He gave all that he could
give to the Commodores. H e’ll
always be rem em bered.” said
band m em ber W alter Orange.
He is survived by his wife,
M elanie Bruno-W illiams, and
two sons from previous mar
riages, Jason and Ricci. The
funeral will be on Friday in
Okolona, Miss., where Williams
was bom . There will be a me
morial service in Los Angeles in
August.
A Knott Street Boxing
Champ Remembered
“He never sa, down for very
long," Rahsaan-Miles said.
Ironically, she shares the story
earned the honor o f an induction
into the Oregon Sports Hall of of sitting still, listening to his de
Fame. Rahsaan is also the only tailed accounts of their hometown
boxer in O regon’s history to win of Portland.
“If you wanted to know any
a Gold Medal in International
thing about black history and you
Com petition.
He was a man who stayed active, had the nerve to ask," she said, “it
always involved in something, un wouldn ’ t be brief, you'd have to sit
down and listen to everything."
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