During a speech Saturday in Calgary, Sarah Palin acknowledged the irony of her family using medical care in Canada decades ago.  Full story »

"Let's seize reform, the need is great," the president said at an appearance in Pennsylvania that had the feel of a campaign rally.  Full story »

Wyden tells President Obama and senior lawmakers from both parties that comprehensive reform is needed, not small steps to repair the nation's broken health care system. Full story »

Sen. Ron Wyden invited to the health care summit. Full story »

The Oregon Insurance Division today announced it has adopted new rules that will require health insurers to make their filings for rate increases fully public. The new rules will give the division new tools to prevent excessively high rate increases, said Teresa Miller, administrator of the division. Full story »

Rep. Mitch Greenlick's five-year quest to make health care a constitutional right ended today in the Oregon House, where the measure fell one vote short of the 31 it needed to pass. Full story »

The Oregon House today unanimously passed a bill that will bar health insurers from using sexual assault injuries as a reason to deny someone coverage. Legislators said the bill is a proactive measure to make sure Oregon insurers don't reject sexual assault victims as some insurers have done elsewhere. Full story »

The president, who insisted he would succeed where other presidents had failed to fix the nation's health care system, now concedes the effort may die in Congress. Full story »

Oregon hospitals, squeezed by investment losses and expansion debts, saw their operating costs climb 40 percent over the four years ending in 2008. It costs Oregon hospitals on average about $2,800 per patient per day to operate. Full story »

"The president wants to get a bill to his desk as quickly as possible," Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said as reporters questioned him repeatedly about President Barack Obama's decision to go along with House and Senate leaders in bypassing the usual negotiations between the two chambers in the interest of speed. Full story »

Separate bills passed by the House and Senate would require nearly all Americans to get coverage and would provide subsidies for many who can't afford the cost -- but they differ on hundreds of details. Full story »

The program would create a voluntary long-term care insurance program to be run by the government.  Full story »

Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley say the future of health care reform is far from settled, but the bill passed this morning in the Senate is an important first step.  Full story »

The Senate health care reform bill will bring new choices to the insured and access to health care for the uninsured through a complex mix of initiatives aimed at containing costs and improving quality. Next members of the Senate and House will try to resolve differences for a final bill. Here's how the Senate plan would affect you: Full story »

Parliamentary tactics have slowed debate to a crawl as 2010 political futures ride on the outcome . Full story »