The Huffington Post: Donald Trump Attacked Obamacare In A State Where It’s Actually Working Pretty Well
Donald Trump has been bashing Obamacare a lot lately. This week, he did so in a state that’s become a major focus of his presidential campaign ― Michigan. “It’s just been announced that Michigan residents are going to experience a massive double-digit premium hike,” Trump said Monday during a speech in Warren, a working-class suburb north of Detroit…
Read more >HealthLeaders Media: Hospital Rankings are Contradictory, Cryptic, Confusing
Have hospital rankings reached the saturation point? A research brief from the University of Michigan’s Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation suggests that hospital rankings, ostensibly designed to enlighten healthcare consumers, have morphed into a confusing array of metrics and methodologies that are now largely ignored outside of the healthcare echo chamber…
Read more >Michigan Radio: Project aims to reduce emergency room “frequent fliers” by tackling underlying social issues
Take funding from the Affordable Care Act, add a $70 million state innovation model grant to the state Department of Health and Human Services, and you’re about to see an ambitious new project that can change health care delivery in Michigan. It’s called Michigan’s Blueprint for Health Innovation…
Read more >WIN 98.5 FM Battle Creek: Local hospitals among state’s best in rankings
Just how well a hospital performs is not necessarily an objective exercise, and patients aren’t necessarily relying on performance results when selecting a medical facility for their needs. Those are some of the observations from the Center for Healthcare Research and Transformation at the University of Michigan…
Read more >Michigan Radio: U of M hopes to crack down on opioid addiction
With a $1.4 million per year grant from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Service, the University of Michigan launched a five-year project called the Michigan Opioid Prescribing Engagement Network (Michigan-OPEN). There are two goals for the project. The first is to cut in half the number of surgical patients receiving opioid prescriptions…
Read more >Michigan Radio: What do Affordable Care Act premium increases mean for Michigan?
Word came from the federal government this week: premiums for popular health plans sold on healthcare.gov are going up an average of 25% next year. And, depending on where you live, you may have fewer choices when shopping on the exchange…
Read more >The Michigan Daily: Community members feel effects, take action against opioid epidemic
SA junior Heather Martin was just 17 when her older sister Angie fatally overdosed in their family home, following a seven-year struggle with opiate addiction. Martin said her sister, throughout her life, was always a bubbly, amiable person. As her addiction continued, though, instead of family remaining a priority as it always had been, getting her next bigger and better …
Read more >The Detroit News: Lead drug price hike hits nerve in Flint
The cost of a lead poisoning drug that’s a staple in hospital emergency departments has increased by roughly 2,700 percent since 2013, resonating with some in Flint and prompting a call for a congressional hearing…
Read more >The University Record: UMHS board now includes outside leaders from medicine, business
Marianne Udow-Phillips, CHRT’s executive director, was appointed to the University of Michigan Health System Board on Thursday, after approval from the Board of Regents. In July 2016, the Board of Regents approved the creation of the Health System Board to advise the Board of Regents and Health System leadership and provide governance.
Read more >Bridge Magazine: Building on Obamacare, warts and all
The rhetoric surrounding the Affordable Care Act never seems to die. Most recently, in the second presidential debate, Donald Trump said that, “Obamacare will never work. It’s very bad.” And, Hillary Clinton had to explain what Bill Clinton meant when he, while in Flint, called the health insurance exchange—where many working people buying coverage themselves are facing substantial premium increases, …
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