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.
Read more >Cover Michigan 2010 Finds Health Safety Net Still Critical Despite Health Reform
Cover Michigan 2010, a comprehensive view of health coverage in the U.S. and Michigan released today by the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation (CHRT), shows upward negative trends from the 2009 report: more people lacking health insurance, more employers dropping coverage, higher costs for those with health insurance, and a growing strain on the health care safety net including …
Read more >Holland, WHTC 1450 AM: Report: Health Reform To Benefit Michigan
Report on the release of CHRT’s Cover Michigan 2010.
Read more >Detroit Free Press: 4 in 10 in Michigan uninsured, on public plan
Report on the release of CHRT’s Cover Michigan 2010.
Read more >Smorgasbord Anyone?
The recently passed “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” a/k/a “health care reform” is a monumental piece of legislation, both literally and figuratively. Despite its supposed intent to “reform” the health care system, however, it is quite tepid on reform and very aggressive on enhancing coverage. The legislation contains a virtual smorgasbord of programs, directives, initiatives, instructions, orders, regulations, requirements, …
Read more >What I wish she had said… The challenge of really communicating about health care reform
The Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce held its annual policy conference on Mackinac Island this past week. Health care reform was a topic of great interest to many of the attendees. In general, this group of 1,100 or so business leaders was either agnostic about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or negative on it. Few had much knowledge …
Read more >Creating Focus and Building on the Opportunity of Health Reform
As I’ve said in past posts, health care reform is much more about insurance reform of the health insurance system than it is about real and fundamental change to the health care delivery or public health systems (see “The Case of the Missing $115 Billion”). The bulk of the dollars included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) …
Read more >