What does Massachusetts say about health reform?
Well, every politician for the past 100 years has known that health care reform is the “third rail” of politics. And, if they didn’t know before Massachusetts, they know it now. So, why did health reform fail this time? Is it for the same reasons it has in the past or is there something unique about this moment or this …
Read more >Crain's Detroit Business: Study: Better disease prevention programs needed
Report on CHRT’s January 2010 issue brief “The Cost Burden of Disease: U.S. and Michigan.”
Read more >The Ann Arbor News: Ann Arbor-based research center: Michigan’s health care spending lower than national average
Report on CHRT’s December 2009 issue brief “Health Care Spending by Country, State and Payer.”
Read more >Michigan’s health care spending lower than U.S. average – Medicaid reimbursements among the lowest in the nation
According to an issue brief on health care costs released today by the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation (CHRT), Michigan’s health care spending has been growing at a slower pace than the national average for more than a decade. The issue brief also says Michigan spends less per capita on personal health care than the national average ($ 5,058 …
Read more >Crain's Detroit Business: Report: State’s health costs rise slower than nation’s
Report on CHRT’s December 2009 issue brief “Health Care Spending by Country, State and Payer.”
Read more >Detroit Free Press: Michigan gets ahead of curve on health costs
Report on CHRT’s December 2009 issue brief “Health Care Spending by Country, State and Payer.”
Read more >The Detroit News: Michigan health care spending below U.S. average
Report on CHRT’s December 2009 issue brief “Health Care Spending by Country, State and Payer.”
Read more >Is concentrated power a good or bad thing when it comes to health care plans?
During the debate about health care reform, there has been much discussion about the need for a public option. The advocates for that option talk about the need to assure real competition in health care. About the public option, Robert Reich said, “…without a public option, the other parties that comprise America’s non-system of health care — private insurers, doctors, …
Read more >The devil is the detail
Health reform is exciting and both the House and Senate bills have elements that could greatly improve the way care is delivered for millions of people. But, with all those great things, you have to know that there are lots of things in those more than 1,900 pages of the House bill and more than 2,000 in the Senate bill …
Read more >What’s a person to do?
“Breast-screening advice is Upended” (Wall Street Journal, November 17, 2009) For years, we have been told that we should have a mammogram every year after age 40 and in 2002, this advice was repeated by the same folks who now are recommending that most women can wait until 50 for routine mammograms. Does it make anyone think about the margarine …
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