A Crucial Ingredient in the Affordable Care Act to Getting Young People to Get Coverage
Like everyone I know who is a health policy junkie, I have been very excited about the launch of the health insurance exchanges. But, my excitement is not just because of my professional interest—and wanting to see how these things actually work and how health care changes as a result—it is also for personal reasons. My 27-year-old goddaughter had to …
Read more >Detroit Free Press: Health reform questions: Couldn’t get on exchange the first day? Don’t worry
CHRT Health Policy Analyst Josh Fangmeier and Paul Duguay, deputy director of the Lansing-based Michigan Association of Health Plans, answer health reform questions from Detroit Free Press readers.
Read more >WDIV: Experts discuss the pros and cons of the Affordable Health Care Act also known as Obamacare
CHRT Director Marianne Udow-Phillips joins Frank McGeorge, an emergency room physician at Henry Ford Health System, and Lance Gable, a professor of Public Health Law at Wayne State University, to discuss the Affordable Care Act.
Read more >Fox 2 News: Michigan releases cost of health insurance plans
The Associated Press cites CHRT’sprojection for the number of enrollees on Michigan’s health insurance exchange in 2014 in an article picked up by various media outlets, including Fox 2 News, the San Francisco Chronicle and Kansas City Star.
Read more >Crain's Detroit Business: UM report: Employer-sponsored health insurance on decline for over 10 years
Crain’s Detroit Business reports on CHRT’s Private Health Insurance in Michigan 2008-2011 brief, which shows that employer-sponsored health insurance has been in decline for more than 10 years.
Read more >Detroit Free Press: Some health insurers offer extras – like apps to find cheapest meds
CHRT Health Policy Analyst Josh Fangmeier explains what consumers buying coverage through the Michigan Health Insurance Exchange should consider to avoid costly surprises later in the year.
Read more >Michigan Radio: See how much you could pay for insurance in Michigan under Affordable Care Act
CHRT Director Marianne Udow-Phillips breaks down the metallic plans for consumers and explains what the White House’s sneak peek at Michigan rates may mean when insurance shoppers go on the exchange starting Oct. 1.
Read more >Reports show the way Americans receive and pay for health insurance has been changing for more than 10 years
The Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation (CHRT) today released two briefs showing that for more than a decade, employers have been dropping health insurance and consumers have been paying more out-of-pocket for health care, a trend that began many years before the development of the Affordable Care Act. The research briefs also show Michigan’s employers are increasing employee cost-sharing …
Read more >Explaining the Affordable Care Act
Health care reform is indeed a journey—not a destination. And, judging from all of the requests that our Center is getting to explain the Affordable Care Act, it is probably going to be a journey for a very long time (assuming, of course, that it doesn’t get “defunded”/ delayed/repealed or otherwise stopped in the next few couple of weeks!). So, …
Read more >The Detroit News: A call for child passenger safety
Dr. Michelle Macy, a 2013 CHRT Policy Fellow, wrote an opinion piece in the Detroit News which argues that Michigan’s Child Passenger Safety Law has not kept pace with recent research and recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Macy states that we should require rear-facing car seat use beyond 1 year —and booster seat use until the until …
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