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Finance and Revenue Committee

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Provides analysis and recommendations on the cost of universal health care in Oregon and funding options. The committee will study and address the effects of the universal health plan on employers, individuals and families, and the Oregon economy. The committee meets on the third Tuesday of every month at 9 a.m. on zoom and accepts written and verbal public comment. The committee consists of two Universal Health Plan Governance Board members and seven members of the public.

Meeting Calendar and Materials

Committee Member Resources

UHPGB Approved Committee Straw Proposals

  • Expenditures and Model Year Straw Proposal_Approved (PDF, 63.9 KB)

Committee Members

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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Chunhuei Chi is a professor at the Oregon State University College of Health and affiliated with its Health Management and Policy Program and Global Health Program. He completed his master’s degree in international public health from the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston and holds a Doctor of Science in health policy and management from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His doctoral research was focused on health system finance, health insurance coverage, and access to health care.

Chunhuei has helped promote universal health care in Oregon and the United States. He testified three times before the Oregon Legislature to support universal health care in the state. He also contributed to establishing Taiwan’s universal health care system and continues to serve as a policy advisor and give workshops in Taiwan. He continues to research the universal health care systems of Chile, South Korea, and Taiwan. He published peer-reviewed papers focused on community ownership and health governance, equity in health, health care, and the financial burden of health care in Bangladesh, Chile, Ecuador, and Taiwan.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Chunhuei also developed expertise in international comparative pandemic control policies and was interviewed by U.S. and international media more than 400 times.​

​​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.​​

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​​​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. ​​

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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.​​