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• GOP health plan could cost 465K Oregonians their coverage, and the state $2.6B in revenue

  16-03-2017 22:30 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  A new state-based analysis of the impact from the House Republican plan to reshape health reform paints a disastrous picture for Oregon.As many as 465,000 Oregonians would lose health coverage by 2023, including 80,000 next year, if the American Health Care Act continues to advance into law, according to a report from state health and insurance agencies.Requested by Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, the analysis also found the AHCA would cost Oregon $2.6 billion in federal revenue by 2023. The uninsured&h
  
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• Oregon judge rules against double overtime for manufacturing employees

  16-03-2017 21:03 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  An expanded interpretation of overtime for manufacturing employees in Oregon — now the subject of a dispute between business groups and a state agency— was rejected by a Multnomah County Circuit Court judge.Judge Kathleen M. Dailey ruled against workers who had sued a Gresham bakery, seeking to be paid the total of their daily and weekly overtime hours instead of the greater of the two amounts.The ruling came as business groups lobby for legislation that would overturn a recent Burea
  
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• 4 Oregon alemakers land on nation's Top 50 Craft Brewers list

  16-03-2017 20:36 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  The Oregon complement of craft brewers fared solidly in The Brewers Association's list of top U.S. Craft Brewers.They weren't, however, at the top of the heap.The Brewers Association, which represents small and independent U.S. craft brewers, this week released its Top 50 U.S. Craft Brewing Companies list. The company at the top of the list is a well-known Pennsylvania operation while the top Oregon company recently expanded to a key Eastern locale.Click through on the picture above to learn&hel
  
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• Kaiser Permanente sponsoring Biketown in 5-year, $750,000 deal

  16-03-2017 18:50 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Kaiser Permanente has signed on as official “health” sponsor of Biketown in a deal that will bring Portland's bike-share program $150,000 a year for five years, the city said Thursday.In return, the health insurer and provider will get “recognition” on 25 of Biketown's 100 stations, and on the the program's mobile app. You can expect to see Kaiser in on marketing co-promotions and special events as well.Biketown launched last July with $10 million in backing from Nike.In
  
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• 6 chefs, 1 writer and a podcaster land James Beard finalist nods

  16-03-2017 15:26 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  The James Beard Foundation has given finalist status to three Portland food denizens in national categoriesAnother four chefs will vie for top honors in the Pacific Northwest.The Beard Foundation announced the finalists, for the food world's most-coveted awards, yesterday.The Portland finalists for national awards are:Portland Monthly writer Karen Brooks for her story “High Chairs and Hard Core”; “The X-Files”; “Beyond Biscuits and Gravy.” She'll jostle with t
  
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• 5 things to know for Thursday, including our inside look at money that helps fuel March Madness

  16-03-2017 15:07 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Happy tweener (we're smack between the Ides of March and St. Patrick's) day, Portland.Here are Five Things that won't come between us.Hoop dreamsMatthew Kish's reporting on NCAA deals (Hey! The tournament starts today! Yeah!) takes a new turn with today's installment.Kish painstakingly collected deals over the last few years from 90 schools. They're all available in a database here.Kish has become one of the country's foremost experts on the matter. He'll be offering his wisdom during a…
  
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• Walden's district has U.S.'s highest Medicaid expansion enrollment

  16-03-2017 14:29 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Not only did Rep. Greg Walden’s district expand Medicaid the most of any congressional district in Oregon — but also of Republican districts in the entire U.S., according to a new report.The 2nd district’s Medicaid expansion enrollment is 129,200, according to the Democratic staff of the Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.Walden, the lone Republican in Oregon’s congressional delegation, chairs the Energy and Commerce Comm
  
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• Gov. Brown to release analysis of Republican health plan

  16-03-2017 14:25 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Gov. Kate Brown will release an analysis today on the impacts the proposed Republican replacement plan for the Affordable Care Act would have on Oregon.News flash: The analysis won't view the proposal kindly.“Our analysis found that for every step of progress that Oregon made, the American Health Care Act will take Oregon three steps back,” Brown said in a written statement.“Since 2014, we have made tremendous progress to ensure that nearly every Oregonian has access to health
  
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