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Washington Post
12-05-2025
- Health
- Washington Post
A prescription for Medicaid
John Kitzhaber, a former emergency physician, was a three-term Democratic governor of Oregon and author of the Medicaid model discussed in this essay. As negotiations continue on the budget bill President Donald Trump wants Congress to pass, Medicaid is squarely in the crosshairs. The Congressional Budget Office estimates Medicaid could lose up to $880 billion over the next 10 years, and that millions of low-income Americans would lose their health coverage.
Yahoo
17-03-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Oregon, nine other states hit 2013 goal of getting 3.3 million electric vehicles on roads by 2025
Oregon and nine other states have met their collective goal for registering electric vehicles. (Stock photo by Master via Getty Images) Oregon and nine other states recently achieved a collective goal of shifting new car buyers toward electric rather than gas-powered vehicles in an effort to reduce pollution and combat climate change. The states have collectively registered 3.3 million new electric vehicles in the last 12 years, fulfilling a 2013 agreement to do so by 2025, according to a report shared Monday by the Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management, a Boston-based nonprofit association of state air pollution control agencies. In 2013, the then-governors of Oregon, California, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont collectively agreed that they would boost policies and public information that could spur the sales of zero-emission vehicles in their states. Transportation was and remains the largest source of planet warming greenhouse gases in Oregon and the nation. When then-Gov. John Kitzhaber signed onto the 2013 agreement, just 300 electric vehicles were registered in Oregon. Today, more than 100,000 electric vehicles have been registered in the state, according to the Oregon Department of Energy. That's about 5% of all new cars registered in the state in the last decade. Gov. Tina Kotek in a news release called the growth of electric vehicle adoption in Oregon, and the realization of the 2013 goals, a 'milestone.' 'Transportation electrification is key to meeting Oregon's climate goals,' she said. 'Strong partnerships between states and private sector partners will be key to the nation's success in the years to come. In 2013, there were 16 electric vehicle models available for purchase in the U.S., according to the Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management. Today, there are more than 150 models. Cumulative electric vehicle sales across the 10 states grew steadily in the first few years after the 2013 memorandum, but sales fully doubled from 2022 to 2024. In 2022, Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act that included a $7,500 tax rebate on the purchase of a new electric vehicle. Oregon's own rebate program, passed in 2017, and offers up to $7,500 back on the purchase of an electric vehicle. The program, which has paused issuing rebates since June of 2024 for a lack of adequate funding, is expected to resume sometime in 2025, according to the Department of Environmental Quality. One-third of all electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles registered in Oregon received one of the state's Clean Vehicle Rebates, according to officials at the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, which distributes the rebates. The rebates have been worth nearly $100 million since 2017. Since 2013, five more states have created their own zero-emission vehicle programs similar to those of the original taskforce states to spur electric vehicle adoption and expand charging infrastructure through public investment and tax rebates, according to the Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management. Oregon and those 14 other states now account for more than one-third of all U.S. sales of new electric vehicles. SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX
Yahoo
18-02-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Kitzhaber, Kulongoski lend voice to Momnibus Bill
SALEM, Ore. (KOIN) — A push to get state funding to help the estimated quarter-million pre-school children and their families with everything from child care to early education got a big boost at the Capitol Monday from community leaders and former Oregon governors. The nonprofit brought together several groups that will lobby lawmakers to put more money into health care, including mental health support, early childhood education and special education for little ones. Momnibus Bill in Oregon aims to help pregnant families, kids Among those lobbying for the money were former Oregon governors John Kitzhaber, 77, and 84-year-old Ted Kulongoski. Their message is that by helping young families now bigger problems will be avoided later. Kitzhaber, who is a doctor, said it's not a criticism of education or healthcare but rather its lack of investment in preventing problems that those systems deal with. 'The legislature has a chance to fund acute crises rather than investments that can prevent those crises in the first place,' Kitzhaber said. 'Listen to the loud and powerful voices of the education lobby and the healthcare lobby over the tens of thousands of voices of children whose futures are being unnecessarily compromised.' They plan to push for a bill by Portland lawmaker and pediatrician Lisa Reynolds — known as the — that would fund programs to help with many problems some families face during pregnancy and a child's first year of life, from stable housing to mental illness. A big push in the Oregon legislature is from early childhood advocates to get money for subsidized child care. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
