Our Client Stories

Michael Bachar is a client of the Outreach, Enrollment, and Access and Premium Assistance programs. * I’ve lived in Portland for 11 years, work for a small real estate maintenance business. About eight years ago I needed medication for an acute lung condition but I had no health insurance. I ended up going to a community health center off and on…

Rick is a client of our Premium Assistance program. * When I retired from full-time work six years ago, I lost health insurance through my employer. I started a small business and asked my insurance broker what my options were during the transition. He helped me navigate all the available insurance plans. When he calculated my premium for my wife…

Nora with her cousin at our Gala 2018 La La Land fundraising event where she was the featured client speaker. Nora has lived in Oregon for fifteen years and is the full-time care provider to her two children: Fatima, 4, and Jimena, 11. "And they are the world to me," she says, grinning. "They are my first thought when I…

"I remember feeling the room turn sideways when he told me," says Nancy as she recalls being informed of her breast cancer diagnosis last September at Providence's Southern Oregon Cancer Center. "We're sitting there talking about chemo treatment schedules for the winter, but I'm just in a state of shock... and it hasn't even occurred to me yet that I have…