Undermining Equity and Patient Protections

This week’s decision by the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) to allow Trillium Community Health Plan to begin enrolling Medicaid members in the Portland area starting on September 1 threatens to disrupt important care relationships in the midst of the COVID 19 pandemic. Of even greater concern is the fact that this decision seems to have been made in a vacuum that ignores both the need for patient protections in a very vulnerable population and the intensified call for equity in our health care system. To read more click here