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TheWeek Review
Blazer Caldwell Jones Dies
Former Portland Trail Blazers center
Caldwell Jones died Sunday from a heart
attack at his home in Decatur, Ga. He
was 64. Jones brought a fierce attitude
and unselfish style of play to the court
that made the Blazers one of the best
defensive teams when he played for
Portland from 1985-89. His quiet but engaging de
meanor off the court made him a favorite with fans.
US, Allies Bomb Militants
The United States and its Arab allies unleashed
deadly bomb and m issile strikes on jihadists in Syria
on Tuesday, opening a new front in the battle against
the Islam ic State group. Dozens o f m ilitants were
reported killed in the raids, which W ashington said
had partly targeted extrem ists plotting an "imm inent
attack" against the West.
Mike Brown
Memorial
Torched
September 24, 2014
killed. How the fire happened wasn't imm ediately
clear, but it stoked fresh resentm ent among those
who question w hether the shooting o f the un
arm ed, black 18-year-old by a white Ferguson
police officer on Aug. 9 is being adequately inves
tigated.
Ebola could Infect 1.4 Million
U.S. health officials Tuesday laid out worst-case and
best-case scenarios for the Ebola epidemic in West
Africa, warning that the number o f infected people
could explode to at least 1.4 million by mid-January -
or peak well below that, if efforts to control the
outbreak are ramped up.
Child Killed In Window Fall
A 3-year-old Portland boy who fell from a second
story window and landed on the concrete below
did not survive his injuries despite the life-saving
efforts o f m edical staff at a Portland hospital.
Police said the fall happened Sunday afternoon as
he was playing with other children in an upstairs
b ed ro o m . The case is a sad rem inder of the dangers
o f upper floor windows.
Record Chinook Salmon Run
A n g e r s p ille d
over Tuesday in
Ferguson, M o.,
a f te r fire d e
stro y ed one o f
two m em orials on the street where M ike Brown was
For the second consecutive year, fall Chinook salmon
returning to the Columbia River Basin are shattering
modern-day records. The Northwest’s iconic fish are
returning in numbers not seen since 1938— more than
75 years ago— when counting began after construc
tion of the Bonneville Dam.
Low Income Adults Gain Coverage
Health
insurance now
covers most
Oregonians
(AP) — A new study shows 95
percent of Oregonians now have
health insurance coverage, largely
thanks to the state's expansion of
Medicaid to many previously ineli
gible low-income adults.
The study, released Thursday,
was conducted by Oregon Health &
Science University in partnership
with the Oregon Health Authority.
It shows the number o f unin
sured Oregonians fell from about
550,000 in June 2013 to roughly
202,000 in June 2014, or about 5
percent of Oregon's population of
3.9 million residents.
Most of the newly insured gained
co v erag e th ro u g h the O regon
Health Plan, Oregon's version of
M edicaid, w hich expanded by
360,000 people. Some previously
had private insurance, but it's likely
the vast majority was uninsured.
While public insurance cover
age increased in Oregon, private
insurance coverage slightly de
creased, by less than 1 percent.
The decrease was due to a drop in
the number of people covered by
employer-sponsored coverage— by
47,000 individuals, or 2.5 percent.
The trend isn't new: Employer
sponsored insurance has been de
creasing for more than a decade,
said Peter Graven, a health econo
m ist at OHSU and the study's au
thor. The drop in employer-spon
sored coverage was likely caused
by businesses closing, new ones
opening and not offering insurance,
and some employers dropping cov
erage, he said.
The number o f Oregonians buy-
ing private insurance directly from
insurers also is on the decline in the
state. It dropped by about 26,000
people, or 15 percent. Some carriers
have reduced direct purchase op
tions, directing people instead to
buy plans via the Cover Oregon
insurance exchange.
Those declines in private insur
ance coverage were somewhat off
set by an increase in private, non
employer coverage purchased via
the exchange. Eighty percent of the
plans purchased through Cover
Oregon were subsidized by the fed
eral government.
The study shows 76,000 Orego
nians bought private plans via the
exchange, though the most current
numbers indicate more than 100,000
people gained private coverage
through Cover Oregon.
The study's author says it's not
possible to tell exactly how many of
those insured via Cover Oregon were
previously uninsured and how many
had other types o f insurance.
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