Health Reform: The Early Days
Early reviews are in and they are favorable! Public opinion polls show support for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) creeping up to 48 percent. All of that is good news, and a well-deserved commentary on health reform: States and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have been moving quickly to put in place the most immediate requirements of the …
Read more >The Berwick Confirmation and Irrationality
The confirmation process for Don Berwick as President Obama’s nominee to be director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services within the Department of Health and Human Services should be a most distressing sight to anyone who has spent their careers in health policy – or who even has a passing interest in the policies and politics of health …
Read more >TalkLansing.net: Marianne Udow-Phillips “Talk Lansing” Interview
CHRT director Marianne Udow-Phillips was interviewed by web radio station TalkLansing.net. The complete audio of the interview is available below.
Read more >The Flap About the Dartmouth Atlas
Earlier in June, the New York Times ran an article by Adleson and Reed questioning the findings in the Dartmouth Atlas. Jack Wennberg and colleagues have been working in this field and documenting small area variation in health care since the 1970s. However, the work was not much recognized outside of academic and health care analytic circles until the start …
Read more >Detroit Free Press: Editorial: Children’s health pays a price for state’s failed tax system
Editorial based on findings from CHRT’s Cover Michigan 2010.
Read more >Crain's Detroit Business: Report: Health care reform will cut uninsured in Michigan from 11 percent to 1.5 percent
Report on the release of CHRT’s Cover Michigan 2010.
Read more >Cover Michigan 2010
Today, we are releasing our 2010 report on health care coverage in Michigan. This report includes comprehensive data on the uninsured, publicly, privately insured and the safety net. In addition, we have included a final chapter on what could be the impact of health reform on coverage in Michigan. The 2010 report principally includes data from 2007/8, the most recently …
Read more >Michigan Radio: Report: Thousands of Michigan Children Live Without Health Care Coverage
Report on the release of CHRT’s Cover Michigan 2010.
Read more >The Detroit News: Study: Reform likely to help Michigan health insurance
Report on the release of CHRT’s Cover Michigan 2010.
Read more >Crain's Detroit Business: Report: Health care reform will cut uninsured in Michigan from 11 percent to 1.5 percent
Report on the release of CHRT’s Cover Michigan 2010.
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