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Salinas' health care focus aids Oregonians
What a tremendous win for Congresswoman-elect Andrea Salinas.
The 6th Congressional District, the state and the country are getting themselves a federal leader who will deliver on policy issues that matter to constituents and all Oregonians. I am particularly excited to have somebody with her health care expertise serving in Congress.
During her time in the Legislature, Salinas was a leading voice on health care issues, working — successfully — to improve health care access and affordability.
Now she will fight the good fight in Congress and we can rest assured she will be ready. Even while in the state Legislature, Andrea Salinas was advocating for federal policy changes that would improve lives here in Oregon. This was shown in a Portland Tribune opinion column ("Salinas: Congress must act to help Oregonians living with obesity") where she called for bipartisan and common-sense congressional action to help patients living with obesity by modernizing badly outdated Medicare rules that do not cover anti-obesity medications and treatments.
Now, as a new member of Congress, Andrea Salinas will be on the frontlines of fighting for expanded coverage of affordable and effective obesity treatments and better health outcomes for all Americans. And that fact fills me with a great amount of hope.
We are lucky to have a leader like Andrea Salinas in Congress.
Rosie Stephens, Lake Oswego
Congress: Set rules for benefit managers
I wanted to write in support of Mike Millard's opinion piece: “Pharmacy wait times are warning sign for Oregonians.”
Under-regulated pharmacy benefit managers are harming communities by replacing independent businesses and reducing patient access to care.
These middlemen were originally designed to work with drug manufacturers to secure rebates for various medications. In theory, once these deals were struck, pharmacy benefit managers would pass the savings on to patients who needed to pick up these medications at the pharmacy counter. But due to insufficient oversight into these practices, studies have shown that too many pharmacy benefit managers pocket the savings for themselves to pad their profits.
I agree with Mike: We need to improve our regulation of pharmacy benefit managers and the new Congress should focus on this critical health care policy right away. I hope that our existing leadership (as well as our new members) see this as an opportunity to bring positive change for all patients and communities.
Mick Harris, Portland 
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