Legislature 2015: One hospital transparency bill dies, another lives on

A bill that would have required hospitals to post their prices looks to be dead in the water. However, a competing transparency bill backed by the Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems is still alive. Senate Bill 891, which was supported by OSPIRG and a coalition of consumer advocates, small businesses and health care providers, died in the Senate Health Care Committee on Monday. It won’t meet today’s deadline for bills to clear their first committee vote. Vote in our poll below. Jesse…
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