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Rather than turn back the clock on healthcare reform, Salem Republican Bud Pierce said he wants to accept the new normal of Medicaid reform and the Affordable Care Act while pushing back on the Democrats’ labor agenda and reducing the administrative workforce at state agencies to make their operations more similar to the private sector.

May 21, 2009 -- Despite intense lobbying pressure from organized medicine – including the Oregon Pediatric Society, the Oregon Psychiatric Association and the Oregon Medical Association – legislators may be close to declaring victory.

Pressure from OHSU and the governor’s office dooms a bill that would have created statutory requirements that self-insured health plans cover applied behavior analysis for children diagnosed with autism. OHSU and PEBB have instead announced they will voluntarily comply with the spirit of the bill drafted by Sen. Shields.