Organized Money How Oregon Is Ending Corporate-Run Healthcare
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Jun 12, 2025 Ben Bowman, Oregon House Majority Leader, led groundbreaking legislation to curb corporate control in healthcare, while Hayden Rooke-Ley, a Senior Fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project, focuses on restoring physician autonomy. They discuss how loopholes allowed corporate takeovers of doctor’s offices and how Oregon's new bill aims to return medical decision-making to healthcare professionals. The conversation highlights the potential for Oregon’s reform to inspire similar initiatives nationally, emphasizing the need for regulatory frameworks that prioritize patient care.
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Purpose of Corporate Practice Ban
- Corporate practice of medicine bans require clinics to be owned mainly by licensed physicians.
- These bans protect patient care decisions from being driven by profit motives of lay entities.
Outsourcing Healthcare Regulation
- Since the 70s-90s, regulation of healthcare has been outsourced to large corporate entities.
- This led to erosion of corporate practice bans to allow corporate control of physicians for cost management.
Optum's Impact on Eugene Clinic
- The Oregon Medical Group was a physician-owned practice sold to Optum, which promised no changes.
- However, increased workloads and staffing changes led to many doctors leaving, impacting 10,000 patients.