It Was Too Much to Hope For: The Fight Goes On
In an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal on November 18, James Capreta and Yuval Levin argue that states can effectively “repeal” the Affordable Care Act by refusing to go along with key provisions. They conclude: President Obama won re-election and Democrats maintained control of the Senate this month, but the states hold the future of ObamaCare in their …
Read more >Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Wisconsin unlikely to create health care exchange
CHRT Director Marianne Udow-Phillips explains the importance of the first health insurance exchanges enrollment process, following the Wisconsin governor’s announcement that the state would not move forward with creating its own exchanges.
Read more >Forward!
One thing was certain in the 2012 Presidential election: the stakes were high for health care reform. Governor Romney started his campaign with standard rhetoric about repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), but by the end of the campaign, most pundits had concluded that repeal was highly unlikely, regardless of the outcome of the election. Governor Romney himself had started …
Read more >Crain's Detroit Business: Obama victory means health care reform moves forward, execs say
CHRT’s analysis of a Michigan Medicaid expansion is highlighed by this Crain’s article that examines what President Barack Obama’s re-election means for the Affordable Care Act, including the optional Medicaid expansion.
Read more >Contraception Coverage and the Constitution
In the midst of all the election coverage—the daily hoopla and scoring of who is up and who is down—it would be very possible to miss an extremely important court decision on the Affordable Care Act, regarding the contraceptive coverage mandate included in the law’s implementation rules. On September 28, 2012, in a case brought by a Missouri mining company, …
Read more >The Plain Dealer: Ohio’s high Medicaid cost estimates questioned by some experts
The Cleveland Plain Dealer speaks with CHRT Director Marianne Udow-Phillips about CHRT’s analysis of a Michigan Medicaid expansion amid high Medicaid cost estimates from the Ohio governor’s administration.
Read more >Crain's Detroit Business: Analysis: Medicaid expansion could save state nearly $1B over decade
Crain’s reports on a CHRT analysis, conducted in partnership with two University of Michigan economists, that shows the State of Michigan could save nearly $1 billion over 10 years if the state opts to expand Medicaid.
Read more >Report: Michigan could save nearly $1 billion over 10 years by expanding Medicaid eligibility
A report released today by the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation (CHRT) in partnership with two economists at the University of Michigan shows that the State of Michigan could save nearly $1 billion over 10 years—while extending comprehensive health insurance to more than 600,000 Michigan citizens—if the state expands Medicaid eligibility beginning in 2014 as provided for under the …
Read more >It’s the Math: The Medicaid Expansion in Michigan
In many respects, the Affordable Care Act is a law about health care coverage. It is designed to expand coverage, mostly by using two tools: (1) the requirement for individuals to have/purchase health coverage or face tax penalties (known as the individual mandate), and (2) the expansion of Medicaid eligibility to all with incomes at or below 138 percent of …
Read more >Asking the right question about “two-tiered” care
When we think of two-tiered care in America, we most often think of the “haves” and “have nots”: those who are covered by health insurance and those who are not. But there is a different way to look at this question, and it may take being outside the U.S. to see it that way. Going back through old issues of …
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