Steve Duin: Travesties on the health-care front

Gov. Kate Brown dissed a war hero. Or so the story goes.
And as the tale finds safe harbor, we watch another simple, incendiary narrative drive us through these complex times.
Few issues are as convoluted as health-care, a context the story requires. Boxed in by campaign promises to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., and the House Republicans pitched a plan that leaves 23 million more Americans uninsured.
Six weeks later, reclusive Senate Republicans are rolling out their own health-care package, one that similarly decimates Medicaid expansion.
In Oregon, meanwhile, Universal Health Services has long sought state approval for a 100-bed private psychiatric hospital in Wilsonville.
Universal is the nation's largest for-profit psychiatric hospital chain, and operates Cedar Hills Hospital in Southwest Portland. The company says Cedar Hills turned away dozens of patients each month in 2016 because its 89 beds were full.
In late February, the Oregon Health Authority denied the application for the $35 million hospital in Wilsonville. Local health-care providers didn't want the competition, having just opened the Unity Center for Behavioral Health in Northeast Portland.

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