Ballot Measure 111 – Amends the Oregon Constitution to obligate the state to provide Oregon residents, “access to cost-effective, clinically appropriate and affordable health care as a fundamental right.”The whole essence of the measure is in these three relevant clauses: cost-effective, clinically appropriate and affordable. How can the state fulfill this fundamental human-right? How will […]
When our Founding Fathers brought our democratic republic into existence, they built it on a straightforward, unambiguous foundation. Government, whether at the state level or federal level, has a simple yet elegant charter, according to the Declaration: to protect our inalienable rights to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” (By this last phrase, the […]