I am a psychiatrist in private practice in Southwest Portland. I see patients insured by a number different insurance companies, but have been really impressed with FamilyCare. It pays well enough that the limited-income people who have it are able to afford medical care from providers who need to keep their clinics operating without special grants, and I have been impressed with the quality of the service provided.

I have to request approval for some expensive medications and to justify my charges, as I do with other companies. Unlike other companies, only FamilyCare makes contact with me on behalf of some patients with challenging conditions to ask what more can be done for the patient, what referrals can be made, as opposed to the opposition to care I see with so many other companies.

The fact that they've been able to do this in a manner that is highly cost-effective for the state makes me question why the state is choosing to put them out of business.

-- Dr. Charles H. Kuttner, Southwest Portland