What about the $10 K that the Family Care gave to Brady?

http://blog.oregonlive.com/portlandcityhall/2011/12/healthcare_group_lobbying_oreg.html

Hard to imagine that isn't intending to influence her actions as a member of the Oregon Health Policy Board.

Oh wait, maybe it already did:

http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2011/12/oregon_health_policy_board_rac.html

The three PACs identified in the spreadsheet receive most of their contributions from Oregon Medicaid Managed Care Organizations. These MCOs generate significant profits from Medicaid services. The beauty of this arrangement is that: Medicaid funds generate MCO and physician profits -> the profits are turned into PAC dollars -> to feed the politicians -> who decide how the state should structure the OHP Medicaid program -> and how MCOs will be compensated. Rinse and repeat.

 Look here I have a cracked molar that I broke from gnashing my teeth from a constant barrage of things I have to put up that made me so angry that it broke the biggest tooth in my head. I told Dr. Greg to pull it out. He said No I'll fix it now it's rotting. I am going to have to yan it myself or pay out of pocket to get it removed.

And some of you would have me believe I should make more sacrafices? For what? Perhaps somebody can ride in the Disabled persons profesionally driven maintained chaufered van and get uneccasary medical treatments in the emergency room? Is that it?

 If the Gov who was a Medical Dr. tells me this is good it probally is.

 I generally take his word over the 'Volunteer' who wants to prothzletize me for church so she can beat up on whatever,whomever she and her 'friends' has seen in the newspaper today and disagree's with in a hysterical, emotional diatribe, such as the gay marriage legislation in Washington State.

 So when I can't even get a broken tooth pulled I generally don't care about some woman with 12 Grandkids who doesnt have the common sense NOT to make more babies than they can pay for. And wants the Gov 's around me to pay for their incompitance.

Health Insurance Lobbyists Reward Eileen Brady's Opposition To Single-Payer

All Oregonians, indeed, all Americans, should be aware of which candidates for public office get how much money from the health insurance industry. In Portland's mayoral contest Eileen Brady stands not only out but alone with $42,630 from health insurance corporations and executives.* Eileen Brady has been anointed the health care establishment candidate chosen to maintain the status quo.

In September 2009 the Portland city council voted unanimously in favor of a Single-Payer resolution which remains in effect today. If elected mayor Eileen Brady would most certainly try to overturn Portland's current, official support for Single-Payer with a resolution favoring the private health insurance industry. 

It would be most instructive to hear from state senator Chip Shields and representative Michael Dembrow (both from Portland, who cosponsored Single-Payer bills in the 2011 legislative session) and the Multnomah and Lane county commissions (both voting unanimously in 2009 for Single-Payer resolutions) and the Portland city council about their critiques of how Eileen Brady's views on health care reform COLLIDE with their collective view that Single-Payer is the best solution to Oregon's and America's moral and economic health care crisis.

Why Would Health Insurance Lobbyists Reward Eileen Brady's Opposition To Single-Payer? Let Us Count The Ways.

During Eileen Brady's tenure as former vice chair of the Oregon Health Fund Board she:

1. Refused to testify in support of the Single-Payer resolution by the Portland city council.

2. Refused to testify in support of the Single-Payer resolution by the Multnomah County Commission.

3. Refused to testify in support of the Single-Payer resolution by the Lane County Commission. 

4. Supported the unfunded Billion dollar health care bill of the 2007 legislative session.

5. Supported raising $300,000,000 of the Billion in taxes and fees in the 2009 legislative session which had the effect of raising NOT lowering citizen, business and government health care premiums.

6. Supported the Democrat controlled 2009 legislature's exclusion of Single-Payer citizen advocacy and expanded it to include denying doctors, nurses, other health care professionals and citizens throughout Oregon who supported Single-Payer the right to participate in contributing their views during statewide health care forums sponsored by Eileen Brady's Oregon Health Fund Board.

7. Abandoned her support for the unfunded Billion dollar health care bill of the 2007 legislative session when Republican votes matched Democrats in 2011 leaving $700,000,000 in a health care IOU remaining on the legislative table. However, her support for the profit-making private health insurance industry remained undiminished and her opposition to Single-Payer unchanged.

8. Refused to sign a letter to senators Wyden and Merkley asking them to follow the lead of senator Max Baucus - who with a simple parliamentary maneuver got Single-Payer/Medicare-For-All for all residents of Lincoln county Montana - and repeat Baucus' trick for Multnomah county.

A big fuss has been continually made during the Portland mayoral campaign over alleged business acumen demonstrated by New Seasons minority stockholder Eileen Brady who was never employed as a manager or anything else by the New Seasons corporation, nor was Eileen Brady ever an officer or even on the board of directors of the New Seasons corporation. However, Eileen Brady was the vice chair of the Oregon Health Fund Board. In that official capacity she did exercise power in support of a Billion dollar tax increase, an active opposition to Single-Payer health care and execution of a public policy intended to stifle public involvement by those not in agreement with her views on the most important policy and personal matter facing all Oregonians, namely, health care. 

Observers from around our state and nationally will want to keep the meaning of all of this in mind as Portland's mayoral contest continues.

Unless and until public employees and the taxpayers who pay for their extravagant health care premiums are all in the same boat neither Portland, nor Oregon, nor America will ever have a fair, equitable, affordable and classless health care system.

We voters should consider reducing the financial compensation for Portland public officials to the local median income without healthcare benefits. [For good measure we should include the Oregon legislature, the governor and all their staffs.] Portland public employees should have the value of their health care benefits transferred to their salaries and end taxpayer payments for those health care premiums. City lobbyists should be tasked with pursuing Single-Payer health care reform as their top priority at the state and federal level. The city council should sign a letter asking senators Wyden and Merkely to follow senator Baucus' lead in Lincoln county Montana by inserting in must pass legislation a paragraph which could bring Single-Payer/Medicare-for-all to every resident of Multnomah county. Public employee unions should be vigorously encouraged to join the city's Single-Payer lobbying effort. These actions would certainly be health care game changers.

Richard Ellmyer

Certified Oregon Change Agent by governor John Kitzhaber.

Former progressive, socially liberal, fiscally conservative candidate for the North Portland House seat in the May 2010 primary, who authored the no tax increase, Single-Payer type plan, the Oregon Community Health Care Bill, in 2004 and who has supported Single-Payer as the ONLY health care solution to Oregon's and America's moral and economic health care crisis. Defeated by establishment Democrat Tina Kotek, who would not extend the constituent courtesy of submitting my Oregon Community Health Care Bill, does not support Single-Payer, voted for the Billion dollar health care tax increase legislation of previous sessions and refused to sign a letter asking senators Wyden and Merkely to follow senator Baucus' lead in Lincoln county Montana by inserting in must pass legislation a paragraph which could have brought Medicare to all her constituents in Multnomah county.

[Did I miss you in my last commentary? Go here: http://topics.oregonlive.com/tag/Richard%2520Ellmyer/index.html]

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http://www.thelundreport.org/resource/eileen_brady_insists_healthcare_contributions_won’t_influence_her_decisions 

Notice which legislator never took a DIME from any oif these groups?

Senator Betsy Johnson, who is the closest thing we have to Wayne Morse in Oregon these days.