MVHCA advocates for universal health care. Everybody in! Nobody out!

The Oregon Universal Health Plan Governance Board has been tasked, under Senate Bill 1089 (passed in 2023), with developing a state-wide universal healthcare plan, to be reviewed and approved by the Oregon legislature starting in the fall of 2026. 

Across the United States, public institutions are quietly changing employee health insurance programs in ways that raise costs, reduce coverage, and threaten the well-being of their workers. On October 1st, 2025, Oregon State University (OSU) Graduate Students’ health insurance switched from Pacific Source to Cigna Healthcare. This came less than a year after the Coalition for Graduate Employees’s (CGE) weeks-long strike to negotiate better wages. According to CGE members, this decision was made without CGE’s input or consent.

Since June 1971, Community Outreach Inc. (COI) has been a resource in “helping people help themselves lead healthy and productive lives”. With the Corvallis location just off 9th street, COI provides shelter services, behavioral health treatment, and free medical services. At a time when medical care continues to rise in cost and complexity, COI provides a lifeline to those who need it most.