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Coping with health reform: Massachusetts biz leaders offer advice to Michigan execs

Crain’s Detroit Business highlights the key messages from Massachusetts business leaders to their Michigan counterparts during a CHRT-sponsored event, including clarification that the Massachusetts business community is “not crazy” for supporting health care reform and the individual mandate. (Free online subscription required to view full text)

Michigan GOP governor proposes Medicaid expansion

USA Today publishes a Detroit Free Press report that included commentary from CHRT Director Marianne Udow-Phillips about Michigan Governor Rick Snyder’s public support for expanding the state’s Medicaid eligibility.

Are Michigan doctors ready for more Medicaid?

CHRT Director Marianne Udow-Phillips discusses a CHRT survey that answers a key question surrounding a possible Michigan Medicaid expansion: Are there enough doctors who will accept Medicaid patients?

Doctors say they’d take new Medicaid patients

Crain’s Detroit Business reports on CHRT’s statewide survey, in partnership with the Child Health Evaluation and Research Unit at the University of Michigan, that shows more than 80 percent of Michigan primary care providers would accept newly insured patients, including new Medicaid patients.