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Because of limited resources, the health care industry has been forced to choose how funds are spent. Public fee-for-service systems have begun to face the hard choices inherent in managed care. The Oregon Health Plan was designed to provide a rational approach to addressing these changes directly.
Public mental health has long struggled to be accepted as a part of health care. Its interface with social services and its broad spectrum of professionals make a clear definition of public mental health's boundaries difficult, fueling policymakers' skepticism about such acceptance. The Oregon Health Plan was the result of a process that explicitly included mental health but recognized that the tools for doing so need to be carefully developed.
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