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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast SATURDAY TODAY Sunny, hot; breezy in the p.m. Very warm with plenty of sun 98° 60° 96° 63° SUNDAY MONDAY Sunny Sunny and beautiful PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 93° 63° 87° 56° 88° 60° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 100° 66° 102° 63° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 99° 86° 108° (1968) 62° 57° 42° (1898) PRECIPITATION 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date 0.00" 0.00" 0.06" 11.30" 6.47" 7.63" through 3 p.m. yesterday HIGH LOW 101° 87° 105° (1968) 65° 57° 44° (2010) 0.00" 0.00" 0.04" 6.59" 4.64" 5.74" SUN AND MOON July 8 July 16 New 5:14 a.m. 8:46 p.m. 7:34 p.m. 4:16 a.m. First July 23 July 30 John Day 97/58 Ontario 104/69 Bend 92/53 Burns 96/53 Caldwell 104/67 Hi 66 94 92 63 96 94 80 94 102 97 91 95 92 95 61 62 104 104 98 80 95 81 99 93 78 100 101 Astoria Baker City Bend Brookings Burns Enterprise Eugene Heppner Hermiston John Day Klamath Falls La Grande Meacham Medford Newport North Bend Ontario Pasco Pendleton Portland Redmond Salem Spokane Ukiah Vancouver Walla Walla Yakima Lo 51 54 53 52 53 54 50 58 63 58 52 59 55 60 48 51 69 59 60 55 49 54 65 50 53 67 60 W pc s s pc s t pc s s s s s s s pc pc s s s pc s pc s s pc s s NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Sat. Hi 68 92 93 66 97 93 86 94 100 97 94 94 92 97 62 64 103 98 96 85 95 88 94 91 84 97 98 Lo 54 55 56 54 56 58 50 59 66 62 52 62 58 61 50 52 72 61 63 58 51 56 65 53 55 69 63 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W s s s pc s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s WORLD CITIES Today Hi 92 87 83 83 69 59 90 90 84 66 84 Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Lo 71 81 66 62 56 48 64 65 74 46 73 Sat. W pc t s pc pc r s s r s pc Hi 94 87 86 78 67 56 87 88 83 64 86 Lo 74 82 66 61 56 51 66 67 75 45 74 W pc sh s pc t sh c s r s pc WINDS Medford 95/60 PRECIPITATION Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today Full Last Albany 82/51 Eugene 80/50 TEMPERATURE 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date 93° 62° Spokane Wenatchee 99/65 98/65 Tacoma Moses 75/48 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 103/59 93/57 65/50 75/47 101/60 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 74/51 100/67 Lewiston 104/61 Astoria 100/66 66/51 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 80/55 Pendleton 94/54 The Dalles 102/63 98/60 89/60 La Grande Salem 95/59 81/54 Corvallis 82/51 HERMISTON Yesterday Normals Records 91° 60° Seattle 75/55 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 97° 67° Today TUESDAY Sunny and pleasant Friday, July 7, 2017 (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 91/52 REGIONAL FORECAST Eastern Washington: Mostly sunny today. Clear to partly cloudy tonight. Plenty of sun tomorrow. Cascades: Plenty of sun today. Clear tonight. Very warm tomorrow with plenty of sunshine. Northern California: Clouds, then sun at the coast today; hot in central parts. Sunny elsewhere. Saturday WSW 4-8 NW 4-8 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Coastal Oregon: Low clouds giving way to sunshine today. Mainly clear tonight. Mostly sunny tomorrow. Eastern and Central Oregon: Sunshine and very hot today. A moonlit sky tonight. Mostly sunny and hot tomorrow. Western Washington: Low clouds followed by sunshine today. Partly cloudy tonight. Sunny tomorrow. Today WSW 8-16 W 7-14 2 5 7 7 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. 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As insurance premiums climb, many are dropping from platinum and gold plans down to silver and bronze plans that require larger deductibles. “Charity care and bad debt are going back up again,” Burke said. “Some people can’t afford what their insur- ance doesn’t pay.” In addition, some young and healthy people dropped totally out of the insurance markets, opting to pay the cheaper penalty. That boosted premiums for those who remained. Hospitals began to feel the sea change. Geller said St. Anthony’s charity care this year is $1.5 million, roughly three times last year’s total of $500,000. Despite the imperfections of the ACA, neither CEO is a fan of the U.S. Senate’s Better Care Reconciliation Act. Citing a report by the Oregon Health Authority and the Department of Consumer and Business Services, Geller said the state would lose billions from its Medicaid program and a third of Oregonians receiving insurance through the exchanges would become uninsured. “About 440,000 will lose coverage (by 2021),” Geller said. “The Senate bill is more tragic than the House bill in the long run.” “In Oregon, we have more at stake than most other states,” Burke said. “We are the fourth most dependent of the 50 states on federal dollars supporting our Medicaid program — it’s not an envi- able position.” Nationally, the Congres- sional Budget Office estimates that 22 million people will lose health insurance by 2026 under the Republican plan. Additionally, the bill offers little help to hospitals, many of which are becoming fiscally fragile. Recently, two hospitals just over the state line in Washington reported financial problems. Walla Walla General Hospital will close July 24 while Trios Health, a hospital Burke located in Kenne- wick, announced last week it would seek Chapter 9 bankruptcy protec- tion. “There’s a perception that hospitals are flush with cash. That’s not true,” Geller Geller said. “There is a lot of pressure on large, medium and small hospitals.” Eight of the larger Oregon hospitals are losing money, he said, and another 17 aren’t generating sufficient profit to replace capital equipment. The GOP health care bill could weaken those hospitals further. Not all is grim, however. The CEOs had praise for a federal health care-related bill passed in 2015 — MACRA, the Medicare Access and CHIP (Children’s Health Insurance Program) Reau- thorization Act. The title is daunting, an acronym within an acronym, but it’s a beacon of hope and proof that legislators on both sides of the aisle can come together, said Geller. Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to pass the bill, a massive change in the way doctors who treat Medi- care patients are reimbursed, starting in 2019. “It’s going to be huge,” Geller said. “It’s going to be a paradigm shift.” Medicare payments to doctors will be tied to the cost of care and to health outcomes, rather than the number of tests and procedures they order or perform. “If you’re very efficient with high-quality outcomes, you’ll get bonus payments,” Geller said. “If you’re at the other end, you’ll be penalized. There will be winners and there’s going to be losers.” Geller said the bill had vast bipartisan support, passing 92-8 in the Senate and 392-37 in the House, but didn’t attract much attention from the media. The legisla- tion, he said, reflects just how much both Democrats and Republicans worry about mounting health care costs. The United States pays $9,237 annually per man, woman and child for health care, at least twice as much per capita than other developed countries and has lower life expectancy than many of them. “Both parties have railed for years on cost,” Geller said. “There’s universal agreement. We’re hitting up against 20 percent of GDP (for health care costs). That’s a problem. Both parties recognize it. It’s one-sixth of the economy and everyone is touched by it.” While both men are immersed in health care daily and pay a lot of attention to proposed health care-related legislation coming down the pike, neither administrator is making any grand predictions for the future. Burke shook his head and flashed a wry smile. “It’s complicated,” he said. ——— Contact Kathy Aney at kaney@eastoregonian.com or call 541-966-0810. Corrections Paul Gadaire’s name was misspelled in a Wednesday article about the Pendleton Fourth of July parade. The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets any errors. If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818. 0s 10s rain 20s flurries 30s 40s snow ice 50s 60s cold front 70s 80s 90s 100s warm front stationary front 110s high low National Summary: Heavy storms will riddle the South, while severe weather is a concern from the Ohio Valley to the lower Great Lakes today. Rain will taper off in New England. Storms will dot the Rockies and Sierra Nevada. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 117° in Needles, Calif. Low 35° in Angel Fire, N.M. 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Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801 or email editor@eastoregonian.com. • To submit sports or outdoors information or tips: 541-966-0838 • sports@eastoregonian.com COMMERCIAL PRINTING Production Manager: Mike Jensen 541-215-0824 • mjensen@eastoregonian.com Transportation package heads to governor’s desk Required a three- fifths majority vote in each chamber By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau SALEM — A $5.3 billion statewide transpor- tation package is headed to Gov. Kate Brown for a signature after the Senate passed the bill 22-to-7 Thursday. “This is a critical and most important piece of legislation. This is the piece of legislation is what the 2017 session will be known for 20, 30, 40 years from now,” said Sen. Rod. Monroe, D-Portland, one of 14 lawmakers who crafted the plan. The House of Repre- sentatives passed the bill 39-to-20 Wednesday. Due to tax hikes and new taxes, the bill required a three-fifths majority vote in each chamber, according to the Oregon Constitution. The 10-year plan includes hikes in the gas tax, registration and title fees and new taxes on payroll, new vehicle purchases and bicycles priced more than $200. The package also calls for congestion-priced tolling at some of Portland’s bottlenecks. The Oregon Transportation Commission is responsible for estab- M-F DRIVE - IN FM/AM RADIO SOUND GATES OPEN AT 7:30 P.M. SHOWTIME AT DUSK Now Open Fri. thru Wed. July 7th - 12th SPIDERMAN. (PG 13) 47 METERS DOWN. (PG 13) Always two movies for the price of one! 938-4327 www.m-fdriveintheatre.com Fri. • Sat. • Sun. Adults $7, Children 11 & Under $2 Pamplin Media Group The Oregon Senate on Thursday approved a $5.3 billion transportation package. It now goes to the governor for her signature. lishing the program, which could toll certain lanes on Interstate 5 and Interstate 205 to pay for conges- tion-busting projects. Among projects speci- fied in the plan are conges- tion relief on Highway 217, widening northbound Interstate 205 from Powell Boulevard to Interstate 84 and initial investment in adding new lanes to Inter- state 5 through Portland’s Rose Quarter. The plan also includes other projects around the state. Senators each received a summary of what projects in their respective districts are included. The plan hikes the state’s existing 30-cent gas tax gradually over a seven- year period to a total of 40 cents. Registration fees would climb by $13 and title fees by $16 in 2018. Beginning in 2020, the state would move toward a tiered system of registration and title fees based on a vehicle’s gas mileage. The plan also levies a 0.5 percent tax on the purchase of new vehicles. About $12 million of the revenue from the proceeds of the vehicle excise tax would be used for rebates on the purchase of electric vehicles. A $15 flat fee would be charged on the purchase of new adult bicycles with a price tag of more than $200. The proceeds of that would go toward paying for commuter bicycle and pedestrian paths. ——— The Capital Bureau is a collaboration between EO Media Group and Pamplin Media Group.
