Oregon lawmakers introduce federal bill to end 'corporate America’s chokehold' on health care: private equity firms “squeeze every bit of health care provision down while elevating the net revenues up.”

Published September 16, 2026 at 7:32 PM PDT Oregon’s fight against corporate control of medicine moved onto the national stage on Wednesday as U.S. Rep.

Val Hoyle and Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden–all Democrats–were among a group of lawmakers to introduce a federal version of Oregon’s landmark ban on the corporate practice of medicine.The unveiling of the Stop Corporate Takeovers of Physicians Act marked a new chapter in a battle Oregon lawmakers and physicians have already been waging at home—one that reshaped emergency care in Eugene.Proving groundsFlanked by physicians in white lab coats, Hoyle told a small crowd during a Capitol Hill press conference that Oregon’s law succeeded because it shut down the shell‑game tactics corporations use to control medical practices through management companies.She pointed to the Eugene case, where emergency physicians used Oregon’s protections to beat back a private‑equity‑backed staffing firm from taking over the ER at PeaceHealth RiverBend, the region’s only Level II trauma center.

First reported by r/democrats.