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Kitzhaber says Cover Oregon
settlement vindicates him
After 19 months, no word
on FBI investigation
“From my standpoint, they were partially
responsible for what happened, and at least
the settlement suggests that they knew that
they were culpable and they didn’t want
to go to trial. ... I’m convinced they would
By NICK BUDNICK
Capital Bureau
have lost at trial.”
Perhaps more surprising was what
Former Gov. John Kitzhaber says he Kitzhaber said in his speech about Oregon’s
is feeling somewhat “vindicated” by the attempt to follow the path he charted and
recent settlement with California software secure additional funds from the federal
government to support the
giant Oracle over the $300 million
Oregon Health Plan.
Cover Oregon website iasco.
Five years ago he secured
As for the long-running joint
a $1.9 billion payment from
FBI-IRS inluence peddling
the federal government over
probe of him and iancee Cylvia
ive years to support Oregon’s
Hayes?
reforms to the Oregon Health
“I have no idea,” he says. “It’s
Plan, which in turn is funded by
been 19 months and I haven’t
the federal low-income health
heard a word. I’m getting on with
program Medicaid.
my life.”
The state is now seeking a
Kitzhaber last week shared
slightly lesser amount, $1.25
some thoughts after making Kitzhaber
billion.
his third prominent public
But at least initially, Kitzhaber said, he
appearance since resigning as governor in
February 2015, at a health care conference expects the federal Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services to pan Oregon’s high-
at the Portland Hilton downtown.
Kitzhaber’s words took on greater stakes request.
“From my perspective, I don’t think
signiicance because they come at a time
when state leaders’ best hope to salve the CMS is going to give us that money just
state’s bleak iscal outlook rests once again to maintain the status quo” as the state has
requested, he said.
on the vision he articulated as governor.
What’s necessary to improve Oregon’s
To close a billion-dollar gap in the state
heath care budget, lawmakers next year chances, Kitzhaber said, are further changes
must hope Kitzhaber’s prescription for to how the state’s hospitals and health care
health care reform again results in a large organizations operate.
Speciically, he called on his audience
federal payment, as it did in 2012.
Kitzhaber’s speech came at an important of health care oficials to embrace more
time for him personally as well, serving as spending on social investments, such as
the latest installment in his long-term plan housing, education and social services,
to re-enter public life and establish a new and for the state to put that commitment in
post-government career of consulting. In the writing in its federal request.
“I think the likelihood of success goes up
nearly 400-member audience at the Sept. 28
“State of Reform” conference were plenty dramatically ... if we use that $1.25 billion
of potential customers, including execu- to leverage a redeployment of resources
tives of hospital systems and Medicaid care (into) social investments,” he said.
Kitzhaber cited statistics showing that
organizations.
He’s no longer in ofice, but “I would other countries spend more on social
take exception with the statement that I’m services and also enjoy better health
out of it,” he said, referring to the dialogue outcomes for its population as a whole,
on health care. He’s been “just doing a relecting the notion that socioeconomic
lot of thinking, speaking, doing a little status, not health care, plays a major role in
an individual’s health.
consulting.”
The notion of remaking the Oregon
Approached after his talk, Kitzhaber
declined to revisit the circumstances that led Health Plan to include more spending on
to his downfall, including his complaints social services comes even as the state takes
about the media coverage of how Hayes, stock of its reforms, with even sympathetic
while serving as his adviser, accepted more lawmakers questioning whether the
than $235,000 from groups seeking to Medicaid “coordinated care” organizations
Kitzhaber created enjoy too much latitude
inluence Oregon policy.
But on health care, he was happy to on spending, and too much secrecy.
When Kitzhaber resigned, some health
speak, including the Cover Oregon legal
aftermath. His contention: that Oracle care oficials and lawmakers openly
settled the long-running legal war he started wondered what would come of his Oregon
mainly because it knew it would lose. He Health Plan changes.
But last week Kitzhaber said he’s not
said he felt somewhat vindicated at the
settlement, noting that internal corporate worried about his reforms. “There’s a lot of
documents unearthed by the state indicated momentum out there, there’s a lot of people
that the company had done shoddy work who are very committed to this within the
— or, as Kitzhaber put it, employed “bad (state’s coordinated care organizations). I
think they can carry it.”
technology” on the project.
AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery
A boy removes mud and water from his house after Hurricane Matthew looded it in
Les Cayes, Haiti on Thursday.
Deadly Hurricane Matthew moves to Florida
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
(AP) — Hurricane Matthew
pelted Florida with heavy rains
as the deadly storm steamed
ever closer to the coast with
potentially catastrophic winds
of 130 mph Thursday. Two
million people were warned to
lee inland.
It was the most powerful
storm to threaten the U.S.
Atlantic coast in more than a
Wildlife oficials
seek input on wolf,
cougar plans
BEND (AP) — Oregon
wildlife oficials are
seeking input on a plan to
manage wolves and cougars
throughout the state.
The Bulletin reports that
the Oregon Fish and Wildlife
Commission is meeting Friday
as the Oregon Department of
Fish and Wildlife evaluates
plans that describe measures
to conserve and manage the
two species and resolve any
conlicts with the animals.
The meeting will ask
stakeholders for input on the
current management plans.
The commission will not
vote Friday but may offer
guidance to the department as
a result of the meetings.
Wolf Program Coordinator
Russ Morgan says the
meeting is a way to have
an open discussion with the
commission before a plan is
drafted.
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SATURDAY
TODAY
SUNDAY
A couple of
showers
Warmer with
decreasing clouds
64° 51°
74° 51°
MONDAY
Sunshine and nice
Partly sunny
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
76° 53°
73° 44°
69° 44°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
69° 51°
76° 50°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
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68°
89° (1933)
49°
43°
24° (1916)
PRECIPITATION
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Year to date
Last year to date
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0.05"
0.12"
0.19"
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5.83"
9.17"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
70°
70°
88° (2014)
49°
41°
23° (2012)
PRECIPITATION
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SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
First
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Oct 8
Oct 15
7:01 a.m.
6:23 p.m.
1:06 p.m.
10:44 p.m.
Last
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Oct 22
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Seattle
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TUESDAY
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Wenatchee
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Tacoma
Moses
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Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 68/49
58/49
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Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
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Astoria
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Portland
Enterprise
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Pendleton 58/39
The Dalles 69/51
64/51
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La Grande
Salem
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Albany
Corvallis 63/54
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John Day
68/48
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
74/42
68/52
66/44
Caldwell
Burns
73/42
69/33
Astoria
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
Klamath Falls
La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern and Central Oregon: Variable
clouds today. Showers around across the
north; warmer in the south.
Western Washington: Mostly cloudy today
with occasional rain.
Eastern Washington: Variable clouds today. Rain
and drizzle near the Idaho border and in the moun-
tains; a shower in the north and across the south.
Cascades: Downpours across the north
today; showers around in central parts. Rain
and drizzle in the south.
Northern California: Mostly sunny today.
Mainly clear tonight. Sunny to partly cloudy
tomorrow.
Today
Saturday
WSW 7-14
SW 7-14
SSW 3-6
SSW 3-6
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: Rather cloudy today; a
passing shower; however, dry in the south.
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men wearing clown masks in
two different Oregon locations
have been arrested for behavior
that caused concern to citizens.
Portland police say
55-year-old David Dahlman
was arrested outside a school
Thursday morning following
a report that a man in a clown
mask was chasing kids.
Police say Dahlman, who
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70/35
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arrested
was also wearing boxing
gloves, alarmed students by
shadow boxing toward them
as he stood outside school
windows and threatened an
assistant principal who came
out to speak to him.
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ran away, was arrested at
a mobile home park and
charged with second-degree
menacing disorderly conduct.
Wednesday night,
Central Point police arrested
21-year-old Michael Richard
for trespassing on high school
property while wearing a
scary clown mask.
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popped up in schools across
the country.
NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Sat.
WINDS
Medford
76/50
The state adopted the wolf
plan in 2005 and last updated
it in 2010.
REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
100 miles or more off South
Florida, sparing the 4.4 million
people in the Miami and Fort
Lauderdale areas from its most
punishing effects.
But by Thursday night,
more than 80,000 homes and
businesses were without power.
Streets in Vero Beach were
partially covered with water,
and hotel guests in Orlando
were told to stay inside.
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— Founded Oct. 16, 1875 —
decade, and had already left
more than 280 dead in its
wake across the Caribbean.
“This storm’s a monster,”
Gov. Rick Scott warned as it
started lashing the state with
periodic heavy rains and
squalls around nightfall. He
added: “I’m going to pray for
everybody’s safety.”
As it moved north in the
evening, Matthew stayed about
0
8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m.
0-2, Low
3-5, Moderate 6-7, High;
8-10, Very High;
11+, Extreme
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num-
ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Forecasts and graphics provided by
AccuWeather, Inc. ©2016
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snow
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70s
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warm front stationary front
110s
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National Summary: High winds and flooding will occur from Matthew along the Florida
east coast today. Some rain will extend northward to Virginia. Storms will stretch from
Michigan to Texas with showers in the Northwest.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 99° in McAllen, Texas
Low 7° in Bodie State Park, Calif.
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
Albuquerque
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Little Rock
Los Angeles
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