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I work in health care as a provider who works with youth with chronic health conditions and have been frustrated by the layers of red tape that we must navigate to get authorization for services for those medicaid patients who need the services the most. While I am not a business person, I have to believe that there is a huge amount of waste that goes into managing these high need patients.  The situation is Oregon is compounded by the fact that mental health and medical health are separate, thus this creates huge problems in providing integrated care. 

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