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Finance and Revenue Committee

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The Finance and Revenue Committee is responsible for developing recommendations to the board on a sustainable and equitable unified financing strategy for a universal health plan in Oregon. The committee will study and address the effects of the universal health plan on employers, individuals and families, and the Oregon economy.

Meeting Calendar and Materials

Oct. 15

9 a.m. – noon

Nov. 19

9 a.m.- noon

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Dec. 17

9 a.m. - noon

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Jan. 21, 2025

9 a.m.- noon

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Feb. 18, 2025

9 a.m.- noon

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Committee Member Resources

Committee Members

​Warren George is a retired titanium production plant manager and business consultant living in Corvallis. He is an independent analyst and frequent speaker on the design of universal health care finance systems. In 2019, he commissioned Oregon's only professional poll dedicated to voter interest in funding universal health care. He was a governor-appointed member of the Oregon Legislature’s Joint Task Force on Universal Health Care, which presented its findings during the 2023 legislative session.

Cherryl Ramirez has served as executive director of the Association of Oregon Community Mental Health Programs (AOCMHP) for 12 years. The association represents community mental health programs that manage and provide services for people with mental health and substance-use disorders and community developmental disabilities programs that provide case management services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

The association also provides a wide array of trainings in the areas of mental health promotion and clinical services, suicide prevention and post-suicide intervention, and mobile crisis services, and it houses the Alliance to Prevent Suicide. Cherryl advocates for policies and resources to support and improve the community behavioral health and developmental disabilities systems in collaboration with behavioral health associations, human service advocacy organizations, and other system partners.

Cherryl served four years as president of the National Association of County Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities Directors Board and four years as its past president. She also represented the public behavioral health system on the Joint Task Force on Universal Health Care. Before her position with AOCMHP, Cherryl served as the executive director of the Association of Community Mental Health Authorities of Illinois for eight years.

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Samantha DuPont serves as the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) program administrator at the Oregon Health Authority (OHA), where she leads the effort to spread and scale the transformative CCBHC model of care throughout the state. Before this role, she managed major behavioral health research projects at OHA that examined behavioral health spending, financing, system capacity, and unmet need. Before joining OHA, Samantha served as a health policy consultant in the national government relations department at Kaiser Permanente, where she focused on delivery system and payment reform, pharmaceutical policy, behavioral health policy, and care delivery innovation. She lives in Portland with her partner, two sons, and their cat, Bonnie.​

​​John Santa, M.D., MPH, is a retired primary care doctor and health administrator. He has worked in multiple health organizations over the past 50 years including as administrator of the Office for Oregon Health Policy and Research from 1999 to 2003. He has been involved in multiple public and private startup organizations. John has been on Medicare for nine years and has served on the Task Force for Universal Health Care and the Oregon Health Policy Board.​

Richard Gibson, M.D., has served as physician informaticist and medical director at Comagine Health since 2018, where his work includes health care cost analysis and health data exchange. Richard has more than 45 years of health care experience, first as a family physician and emergency physician, then installing electronic health records in provider offices and hospitals, followed by analyzing health data. He has a Ph.D. in medical informatics and a Master of Business Administration. Richard is primarily motivated by wanting to alleviate financial stress for Oregonians and their families as they face challenging medical problems and injuries.​

Charlie Swanson is a retired high school and community college teacher of math, physics, and chemistry. He has worked on health care financial data analysis in Oregon since 2014, first as a liaison between Health Care for All Oregon and Dr. Gerald Friedman, when he did the 2014 economic analysis of the Health Care for All Oregon Plan; as an overseeing activist for the 2017 Rand Corporation report “A Comprehensive Assessment of Four Options for Financing Health Care Delivery in Oregon”; as a member of the Universal Access to Health Care work group convened by Rep. Mitch Greenlick in 2018; and as a health care advocate working to keep Oregon’s Task Force on Universal Health Care grounded in appropriate data. Charlie has done extensive analyses of health care expenditures in Oregon and Medicaid nationally. ​

​​​Bethany Stairs is a certified family nurse practitioner and the medical director at Wallace Medical. Bethany completed her Master of Science in nursing from the University of California Los Angeles in 2009, her Master of Business Administration in health care from Oregon Health & Science University in 2023, and her Doctor of Nursing Practice from Frontier Nursing University in 2024. Since becoming a nurse practitioner, Bethany has worked in a variety of primary care and urgent care settings, primarily working in community health. She is passionate about providing care to underserved communities and has focused her career on improving health equity both with patients and among her staff. ​

Jeff Gudman is a lifelong Oregon resident. He received a bachelor’s degree in economics at Pamona College and a master’s degree in business at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Jeff worked for Fortune 500 companies, startups, and mid-size companies. He served eight years on the Lake Oswego City Council and has been on numerous nonprofit boards through the years – currently as treasurer of the Clackamas Free Clinic, member of the Mary’s Woods retirement community’s board of directors, treasurer of Seniors Advocating for Generational Equity (SAGE), treasurer of the Willamette Falls Heritage Council, and an at-large member of the Oregon Swimming Board of Directors.​

Over the past decade, Chris Hogan has had the pleasure of serving Oregon Health Plan members in Coos and Curry counties as part of Advanced Health’s coordinated care organization team. In frontier Oregon, patients and providers are faced with a unique set of challenges, including geographic isolation, increased severity of illness and the intensity of required care, and adverse payer mix. In Chris’ role on this committee, he hopes to voice those challenges and help build a universal coverage system that does not leave rural communities behind. He firmly believes health care is a right for all Oregonians.​