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SD public defense duties shift from counties to state; SCOTUS appears skeptical of restricting government communications with social media companies; Trump lawyers say he can't make bond; new scholarships aim to connect class of 2024 to high-demand jobs.

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The SCOTUS weighs government influence on social media, and who groups like the NRA can do business with. Biden signs an executive order to advance women's health research and the White House tells Israel it's responsible for the Gaza humanitarian crisis.

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Midwest regenerative farmers are rethinking chicken production, Medicare Advantage is squeezing the finances of rural hospitals and California's extreme swing from floods to drought has some thinking it's time to turn rural farm parcels into floodplains.

Setting the Record Straight on Universal Health Care in Oregon

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Medford, OR - It's time to set the record straight on health care reform. That's the message from organizers of a town hall meeting taking place in Medford tonight. A panel of lawmakers and health care reform advocates will discuss the newly passed "Healthy Oregon Act," which creates a framework for universal health care in the state. Topics will include what universal care is and why some feel it is needed.

Tanya Wray of the Oregon Action Health Care Committee will be there. She believes too many people view the new plan as a handout. She insists that's not the case, as she discovered firsthand when she was diagnosed with cancer.

"Overnight, even though I was insured and motivated and well educated and hard-working, my world turned upside down and suddenly, because I'm not able to return to work, I lost my group insurance."

Five years of living with cancer forced Wray into a medical bankruptcy.

"To have something like a medical condition make you financially unstable is really just not smart for us -- locally or nationwide."

Wray says four out of five of the 615,000 uninsured Oregonians are employed. That's just one of the statistics sure to come up at the "Southern Oregon Health Care Town Hall Meeting," from 7:00 to 9:00 PM tonight at the Medford First United Methodist Church.




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