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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.

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.