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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 …

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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it is probably going to be a journey for a very long time (assuming, of course, that it doesn’t get “defunded”/ delayed/repealed or otherwise stopped in the next few couple of weeks!).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, …

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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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Fox 2 News: Understanding the Affordable Health Care Act

Amy Lange with Fox 2 News sits down with CHRT Director Marianne Udow-Phillips to find out what consumers need to know about the Affordable Care Act before the new health insurance exchanges launch Oct. 1.

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Crain's Detroit Business: A lesson from Massachusetts: Biz, government should work together

Among the coverage in a Crain’s Detroit Business special section aimed at educating employers and employees on the coming changes under the ACA is a retelling of a previous article summarizing CHRT’s Massachusetts Comes to Michigan: Lessons about Health Care Reform from Business Leaders symposium in February 2013.

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The Importance of Federally Qualified Health Centers and the ACA

Editor’s Note: This column appeared in Bridge Magazine. About six months after the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed in 2010, our Center hosted a symposium in Ann Arbor on the future of the health care safety net. Sara Rosenbaum, an expert on both the ACA and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), spoke at the event and her remarks emphasized …

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