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Under the Affordable Care Act, insurance plans are required to give new mothers equipment and services to enable them to breast feed. What the law doesn't say, however, is what kind of equipment has to be provided.
States enact new rules to help consumers make claims.
Portland, Ore., is the largest American city that doesn't add fluoride to its drinking water. Activists have been vocal, for and against a proposal to change that. The science shows that fears of side effects from small amounts of fluoride to protect teeth are unfounded.
Gov. John Kitzhaber, a former emergency room doctor, has convinced the federal government that he has a way to make Medicaid treatment better, and cheaper, by completely changing the way the sickest people in the state get health care.
The state has been at the forefront of trying to make sure a person has as much control over the end of life as possible with a detailed directive that has been adopted by 14 other states.
Digitized medical records have the potential to have a powerful effect on doctors' behavior and patients' care.
Oregon's Gov. John Kitzhaber, a Democrat and a physician, is pushing for a way for the state's health plans to coordinate care better for patients.
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